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[PAST EVENT] Eli Clare Lecture
October 28, 2015
5pm - 6pm
All are welcome to attend a lecture by Eli Clare, author of Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness & Liberation titled, "Yearning Towards Carrie Buck." A reception to follow in Tucker Foyer.
The infamous Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell, which declared involuntary sterilization laws constitutional in 1927, was built upon the body of Carrie Buck, a poor white woman from Virginia. Using history, poetry, images, and imagination, Eli Clare explores how disability, class, gender, and whiteness often collide and asks questions about the relationship between bodies on one hand and law, history, and metaphor on the other.
Learn more about Eli Clare by visiting his website http://eliclare.com/
The infamous Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell, which declared involuntary sterilization laws constitutional in 1927, was built upon the body of Carrie Buck, a poor white woman from Virginia. Using history, poetry, images, and imagination, Eli Clare explores how disability, class, gender, and whiteness often collide and asks questions about the relationship between bodies on one hand and law, history, and metaphor on the other.
Learn more about Eli Clare by visiting his website http://eliclare.com/