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About Seminars in the City
Fall 2003 Queering the Crip/Cripping the Queer:
Introduction to Queer and Disability Studies In this monthly seminar we will be exploring the similarities, differences, intersections, and conflicts between Queer Studies and Disability Studies. We will examine both Queer and Disability activism and scholarship and discuss how those who are marginalized by not only queerness and disability, but also race, sex, gender, class, and other factors can be placed at the center of both discourse and life. Seminars will meet in a wheelchair-accessible room at the LGBT Community Center from 7-9pm the second Wednesday of each month this fall: September 10, October 8, November 12, and December 10. Registrants are asked to read Simi Linton’s Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity for the first meeting's discussions. A limited number of the books discussed each week are available on loan from the CLAGS office on a first-come first-served basis. Also, Bluestockings, New York’s women’s bookstore, will stock texts used in the course and is offering them to seminar members at a 10% discount. To register for the seminar, and to notify the CLAGS office of any additional accommodations you need (ASL interpretation, large print copies, etc.), please contact us at clags@gc.cuny.edu, or by telephone, with a relay operator if necessary, at 212-817-1955. Bluestockings will stock our books with a 10% discount for seminar participants. The books we'll be using are: Simi Linton, Claiming Disability Eli Clare, Exile and Pride Fleischer and Zames, The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation The rest of the texts will be photocopies from supplemental packets, indicated below with a * (complete bibliographic information on readings is in the packets). All sessions are at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center, 208 W.13th Street, at 7pm. SESSION 1: Wednesday, September 10 Reading: Claiming Disability, Simi Linton Possible topics/questions to raise for discussion: a) Social/political construction of definition of disability/disabled body/mind; differentiate from medical definitions; pros & cons, implications of social definition b)Social/political construction of queerness/queer body c) How are A & B complicated by/how do they interact with race, class, and gender? (Multiple construction of the body/mind of “the other”); d) Disability studies as a unique perspective; Queer studies as a unique perspective; How do they interact? SESSION 2: Wednesday, October 8 Contemporary History Readings: The Disability Rights Movement, chapters 1,3,5, 12 (also recommended: chapters 4 and 6) Cheryl Marie Davis, Poems, in The Disability Studies Reader, Lennard Davis, ed.* Selections from Out of the Closets: Voices of Gay Liberation* Possible issues for discussion: a) Changing terminologies -- gay to gay and lesbian to queer to lgbt; analogies in disabled terms? b) Gay liberation/disabled liberation vs gay rights/accommodation -- the politics of liberation vs. a civil rights approach c) Recent historical shifts: 70s to today. SESSION 3: Wednesday, November 12 Community, Relationships, Sexuality Readings: Eli Clare, Exile and Pride Sarah E. Chinn, “Feeling Her Way: Audre Lorde and the Power of Touch” GLQ* Issues to be discussed: a) Being a crip in the queer community; Being queer in the crip community b) Ableist images of attractiveness; Asexua/hypersexual images of disability/queerness c) Queer/crip pleasures SESSION 4: Wednesday, December 10 Policy Issues Readings: Ruth Hubbard, ”Who Should and Should Not Inhabit the World” in The Disability Studies Reader, Lennard Davis, ed.* Harlan Hahn, "Advertising the Acceptably Employable Image" in Davis* Disability Rights Movement chapters 6 and 8 Issues to be discussed: a) Reproduction and parenting by crips and/or queers; eugenics and selective abortion b) Who defines “independence?” Employment discrimination and income support. c) Current trends in ADA enforcement and supportive care; implications for our lives. |
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