Eli Clare
Writer - Activist - Poet
Disability, Access, and the Natural World
Eli Clare will be visiting campus tomorrow and Thursday! As a seasoned lecturer, activist, and explorer, Eli is well-equipped to engage our campus community and guests in a thought-provoking dialogue about disability, access and identity politics. He will also help us identify methods for improving conditions within and beyond their own communities.
We have three separate events scheduled at our campus and they are all open to the public! We’re especially excited about the workshop and hope you might encourage others to attend! UWB folks can register online using the links below. Community members can email us at owlsuwb@uw.edu with their name, email, and contact number and we will add them to our roster.
Public Lecture - Bodies as Home: Notes on Cure, Disability, and the Natural World
As an ideology seeped into every corner of Western thought and culture, cure rides on the back of normal and natural. Insidious and pervasive, it impacts many, many bodies and minds. We need to respond not with a simple or reactive belief system, not with an anti-cure stance in the face of the endless assumptions about body-mind difference, but rather with a broad-based politics of cure mirroring the complexity of all our body-minds.
Location: ARC Overlook
FREE: Open to the public
Registration encouraged but not required.
Wednesday, Apr 27, 2016, 06:30 PM
18220 Campus Way Northeast, Bothell, WA, United States
Workshop – Disability, Access, and Outdoor Recreation
Who gets to have fun and adventures outdoors? Join hiker, tricyclist, and writer Eli Clare to explore questions about access. disability, and outdoor recreation.
Location: ARC Overlook
FREE: Outdoor professionals and student leaders encouraged to attend
Registration is required. Brunch will be provided.
Thursday, Apr 28, 2016, 09:00 AM
18220 Campus Way Northeast, Bothell, WA, United States
Live Poetry Reading
A collection of poetry and prose, The Marrow's Telling spans fifteen years, exploring how bodies carry history and identity over time. Embracing contradiction and repetition, this work maps itself around embodied experiences of disability, race, gender transgression and transition, family violence, and sexuality. Eli will be performing some of his poetry live on our campus. See below for an audio recording of one of Eli's poems which is also captioned and signed in ASL.
Location: UWB Plaza
FREE: Open to the Public
Registration is encouraged but not required.Thursday, Apr 28, 2016, 02:30 PM
18115 Bothell Way Northeast, Bothell, WA, United States
Accesibility Info:
CART will be provided; ASL interpretation is not currently planned. We will create wide aisles for wheelchairs and spaces for folks using wheelchairs to sit during the lecture.
This event will not be scent-free, but to increase the accessibility of the event for attendees with chemical sensitivities, please refrain from wearing perfume, cologne, or essential oils to the event, and avoid smoking beforehand if possible. Please wash your clothes with fragrance-free detergent or baking soda and dry them without dryer sheets prior to the event. More information about Multiple Chemical Sensitivities and being fragrance free: http://eastbaymeditation.org/accessibility/PDF/MCS-ACCESSIBILITY-BASICS.pdf and http://www.brownstargirl.org/blog/fragrance-free-femme-of-colour-realness-draft-15 We will have marked lower-scent seating near air purifiers and we'll have baking soda and scent-free soap available if folks are asked to wash off scents.
Cascadia and UW Bothell are committed to providing equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation in their services, programs, activities, education and employment for individuals with disabilities. To make arrangements for disability accommodations, UW Bothell students should contact Disability Resources for Students at 425.352.5307, TDD 425.352.5303, uwb-drs@uw.edu. Cascadia College students should contact Disability Support Services at 425.352.8128 , disabilities@cascadia.edu. It is preferred that arrangements are made 10 days prior to the event.
Visit us Online!
Email: owlsuwb@uw.edu
Website: http://www.uwb.edu/recwell/outdoor-wellness
Location: 18220 Campus Way Northeast, Bothell, WA, United States
Phone: 425-352-3828
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UWBRecWell
Twitter: @uwbrecwell
Additional Opportunity:
Dr. Sheryl Burgstahler founded and directs the DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology) Center and the Access Technology Center (ATC). and is an affiliate professor in the College of Education at the University of Washington in Seattle. Her teaching and research focus on the successful transition of students with disabilities to college and careers and on the application of universal design to the student environment. Her current projects include the Alliance for Students with Disabilities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (AccessSTEM), the Alliance for Access to Computing Careers (AccessComputing), AccessCS10K: Including Students with Disabilities in Computing Education for the Twenty-First Century, AccessEngineering, AccessSTEM CAREERS, the RDE Collaborative Dissemination project, and the Center for Universal Design in Education.
Location: UW1 Rose Room
Registration is required. Please email Monica Manzo (monicm3@uw.edu) if you plan to attend.