uodsp: Eli Claire// Defective and Deficient: Thinking about Bad Bodies.

[Heidi von Ravensberg]

Presentation by Eli Clare





The Department of Philosophy welcomes Eli Clare to the UO campus on Thursday, May 17, 2018. Eli will present his work from 4 to 5:30 in the Knight Library Browsing room (106).

Free event, limited seating.





With special thanks to our event sponsors: Center for the Study of Women in Society, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Stud-ies, College of Education, Department of Sociology, The Humanities Program, Creative Writing Program, Department of Eng-lish, Oregon Humanities Center, and the College of Arts and Sciences.





"All too many people and communities are named defective and deficient in a thousand differ-ent ways. Those words are weapons used to create "bad" and disposable body-minds. Through poetry, storytelling, and history, Eli Clare unpacks the power of "defective," exploring how it is rooted in ableism and wielded by white supremacy to strengthen racism. "




May 17, 2018 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.