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Save the Date: A conversation on Blackness and Disability with Dr. Sami Schalk

Nelly Bassily | 3 Feb 2023

February 27th

Event posterAs part of Black History Month events at 苹果淫院,聽Dr. Sami Schalk聽will be joining us for a conversation on Blackness and Disability. The event will be online and in-person at Ausgang Plaza in Montreal.聽More details to follow.聽

Dr. Sami Schalk聽(she/her) is an associate professor of Gender & Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction (Duke 2018) and Black Disability Politics (Duke 2022). Dr. Schalk鈥檚 academic work focuses on race, disability, and gender in contemporary American literature and culture. She also writes for mainstream outlets, including a monthly column called 鈥淧leasure Practices鈥� in TONE Madison. Dr. Schalk identifies as a fat, Black, queer, disabled femme and a pleasure activist.聽

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