Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
Friday, April 28, 2017
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
ACCESS LIVING & BODIES OF WORK PRESENT:
Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
With Eli Clare
Join Eli Clare for a reading from his new book Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure. Eli combines memoir, history, and critical analysis to explore cureāthe deeply held belief that body-minds considered broken need to be fixed. Cure serves many purposes. It saves lives, manipulates lives, and prioritizes some lives over others. It provides comfort, makes profits, justifies violence, and promises resolution to body-mind loss. Eli grapples with this knot of contradictions, maintaining that neither an anti-cure politics nor a pro-cure worldview can account for the messy, complex relationships we have with our body-minds.
This event is wheelchair accessible. It is free and open to the public.
Personal Assistants and Sign Language Interpreters will be provided. Please refrain from wearing scented products.
The event is brought to you by
Access Living
Bodies of Work: Network of Disability Arts and Culture
UIC Department of Disability and Human Development