The Writer’s Center presents a FREE virtual panel on the making of the new anthology Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire. We’re joined by contributors to the anthology Ashna Ali, Gracen Brilmeyer, and Travis Chi Wing Lau. They are in conversation with fellow contributor Claude Olson, Office Manager at The Writer’s Center.
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Ashna Ali (she/they) is a queer, disabled, and diasporic Bangladeshi poet and writer raised in Italy and based in Brooklyn. Their debut collection, The Relativity of Living Well is forthcoming from Bone Bouquet in 2024. A Best-of-the-Net nominee, they are a 2024 Periplus Fellow and a 2023-2024 Fellow for In Surreal Life. They publish a weekly substack on queer feminist cultural criticism and disability justice called Pain Baby, and their poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Split This Rock’s Poem-of-the-Week, Brooklyn Poets Poet-of-the-Week, Asian American Writers Workshop’s The Margins, Nat Brut, Zoeglossia, and beyond.
Gracen Brilmyer (they/them) is a Disabled researcher whose work investigates the ways that disabled people use, experience, and understand themselves through archives as well as how to tell histories of disability when there is little or no archival evidence. They are the director of the Disability Archives Lab, collaborative space for disabled people to think about the ways that archives and the materials they hold document, shape, and impact disabled people, and an assistant professor at McGill University. For more: disabilityarchiveslab.com
Travis Chi Wing Lau (he/him/his) is Assistant Professor of English at Kenyon College. His research and teaching focus on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature and culture, health humanities, and disability studies. Alongside his scholarship, Lau frequently writes for venues of public scholarship like Synapsis: A Journal of Health Humanities, Public Books, Lapham’s Quarterly, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. His poetry has appeared in Wordgathering, Glass, South Carolina Review, Foglifter, and Hypertext, as well as in three chapbooks, The Bone Setter (Damaged Goods Press, 2019), Paring (Finishing Line Press, 2020), and Vagaries (Fork Tine Press, 2022). [travisclau.com]
Claude Olson (she/they) is a graduate of Smith College and a writer whose work has appeared in two anthologies, Awakenings: Stories of Bodies and Consciousness and Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire, as well as in The Massachusetts Review. She currently works as the Office Manager for The Writer’s Center.
7 окт 2024
