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April 24, 2006

MY BODY POLITIC

"I read "My Body Politic" with admiration, sometimes for the pain that all but wept on the page, again for sheer exuberant friendships, for self-discovery, political imagination, and pluck. . . . Wonderful! In a dark time, a gift of hope."

-Daniel Berrigan, S . J .

SIMI LINTON, author of "My Body Politic," is a prominent activist and author of numerous articles about disability. She holds a Ph.D. from New York University and until 1998 taught at Hunter College. She is author of Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity and founder of Disability/Arts, an organization that works with artists and cultural institutions to help shape the presentation of disability in the arts and to increase the representation of works by disabled artists.

While hitchhiking from Boston to Washington D.C. in 1971 to protest the war in Vietnam, Simi Linton was involved in a car accident that paralyzed her legs and took the lives of her young husband and her best friend. Her memoir begins with her struggle to regain physical and emotional strength and to resume her life in the world. Then Linton takes us on the road she traveled—with stops in Berkeley, Paris, Havana, and back to her home in Manhattan, as she learns what it means to be a disabled person in this country.

Two Readings and Booksignings in New York in May:

  1. Columbia University
    Monday, May 1, 6–8 p.m.
    Introduced by Rosemary G. Feal
    Executive Director of the Modern Language Association
    Reception to Follow

    Alfred Lerner Hall
    115th & Broadway
    Party Room, C Level

    Enter the Columbia Campus at 115th & Broadway; follow path to building entrance on right; take elevator (not stairs) to C Level.

    Please RSVP (and/or request accommodations) by writing to dsseminar@gmail.com.

    This event is sponsored by the Columbia University Disability Studies Seminar and the Office of Disability Services.

  2. Marymount Manhattan College
    Wednesday, May 3, 7:30
    Introduced by Daniel Berrigan, S.J.,
    Jesuit priest, poet, and peacemaker

    Reception to follow

    Marymount Manhattan College Building
    221 E. 71st St.
    Regina Peruggi Room, 2nd Floor

    Please contact Jerry Williams at: 212-517-0604 for more information and to request accommodations.

    This event sponsored by the English Dept., Sigma Tau Delta, and the Literary Society Marymount Manhattan College.




Posted by Nancy at April 24, 2006 10:38 AM

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