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SUMMARY:Writing An Arab Illness Narrative: Head Above Water Shahd Alshammari\, in conversation with Mara Mills
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, February 15 2024 from 12-1pm EST \n\nHead Above Water: Reflections on Illness book cover. A woman lays with her eyes closed\, facing up towards the sky. She is immersed in pink\, orange\, and white circles\, which live on about 2/3 of the book cover. In all caps in a white bolded type\, Shahd Alshammari’s name is at the very top center. The book title is in the same type until the semicolon\, where it then switches to a pink that matches some of the circles. \n\nPlease join us for Dr. Alshammari’s reading from Head Above Water\, one of the first disability memoirs from the Gulf region\, with a follow up discussion on disability in literature and the role of illness narratives by Arab women.  \nHead above Water is an intimate\, philosophical memoir by Shahd Alshammari\, a woman marked “ill” by society and a lifelong reader\, student\, and teacher. Alshammari explores disability\, displacement\, and belonging—not only of the body\, but of culture\, gender\, and race. Head Above Water was longlisted for The Barbellion Prize and has been referred to as “an intimate and layered portrait of disabled womanhood.” – Kirkus (starred review) \n\n \nHeadshot of Shahd Alshammari\, an Arab woman smiling widely at the camera. Shahd has black curly shoulder length hair; on the right side her hair is behind her ear\, which has a pearl earring with a silver circle dangling from it. She is wearing large black square framed glasses\, a pinkish lipstick\, a white jacket\, and a white collared button down underneath. She is in front of an out-of-focus library. \nPhoto credit\, Dima Assad \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nShahd Alshammari is a Kuwaiti-Palestinian author and academic. She is the author of the books Notes on the Flesh and Head Above Water\, as well as numerous other academic publications and papers. Most recently\, she is the co-editor of Gulf Women’s Lives: Voice\, Space\, Place (University of Exeter Press\, 2024). Her areas of research include illness narratives\, disability studies\, and questions of identity and language in the Arab world. \n\n\n\n\n\nEvent is free and open to the public. \nASL and live captions will be provided. \nPlease include accessibility needs as they relate to the event in the registration\, or email msf440@nyu.edu. \n  \nCo-Sponsored by the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies\, NYU Department of English Disability Studies & Advocacy Group and 19WSN.
URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/writing-an-arab-illness-narrative-head-above-water-shahd-alshammari-in-conversation-with-mara-mills/
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SUMMARY:Bad Crip Feelings and How (Not) to Bear Them\, with J. Logan Smilges and Jina B. Kim
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of bad crip feelings with a talk by J. Logan Smilges (UBC) on their book Crip Negativity (2023)\, followed by a conversation with Jina B. Kim (Smith). Crip Negativity addresses the role of bad feelings in disability studies and organizing\, and at this event\, Smilges will address what the book’s reception can tell us about the field’s affective attachments and political commitments. This event is moderated by Mara Mills. \n\n  \nCover for Crip Negativity by J. Logan Smilges. White text against a solid black background. \n  \nJ. Logan Smilges is an assistant professor of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia. Led by commitments to transfeminism and disability justice\, their scholarship and teaching lie at the nexus of queer/trans disability studies\, rhetorical studies\, and the history of medicine. They are the author of Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence (University of Minnesota Press\, 2022) and Crip Negativity (University of Minnesota Press\, 2023). Their other writing can be found in Transgender Studies Quarterly\, Disability Studies Quarterly\, Women’s Studies Quarterly\, College Composition and Communication\, Rhetoric Review\, and elsewhere. \n \n  \nBlack and white photo of J. Logan\, a white person with a shaved head\, sitting on a stool and facing the camera with a serious expression. They are wearing a black\, sleeveless turtleneck\, black pants\, and blank shoes. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nJina B. Kim is a scholar\, writer\, and educator of critical disability studies and feminist/ queer-of-color critique. She is an assistant professor of English and the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College. Currently\, she is at work on a manuscript titled Dreaming of Infrastructure: Crip-of-Color Writing after the U.S. Welfare State\, which brings disability analysis to bear on women- and queer-of-color writing after 1996 U.S. welfare reform. Her work has appeared in Signs\, Social Text\, American Quarterly\, MELUS\, Disability Studies Quarterly\, South Atlantic Quarterly\, and The Asian American Literary Review. She can be found on Instagram at @emancipation_of_jiji \n \n  \n  \nA Korean-American woman with large glasses and black turtleneck smiles at the camera. She is in 3/4 profile and there is autumn foliage in the background. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nEvent is free and open to the public. \nASL and live captions will be provided. \nIf you require captioning and ASL simultaneously\, we recommend using a laptop or desktop computer\, and not a tablet or smartphone. \nPlease email accessibility needs as they relate to this event to msf440@nyu.edu. \n  \nCo-sponsored by NYU Department of English Disability Studies & Advocacy Group and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
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