{"id":28295,"date":"2014-01-28T04:49:02","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T09:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=28295"},"modified":"2014-01-28T11:11:11","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T16:11:11","slug":"artistactivistauthor-to-read-work-jan-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/01_28_2014\/artistactivistauthor-to-read-work-jan-28","title":{"rendered":"Reading by artist\/activist\/author moved to Jan. 29"},"content":{"rendered":"

The University of Toledo Disability Studies Program will present the acclaimed feminist artist, disability rights activist and author Harilyn Rousso Wednesday, Jan. 29, at 5:45 p.m. in Memorial Field House Room 1210.<\/p>\n

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Rousso<\/p><\/div>Rousso will read from her memoir, Don\u2019t Call Me Inspirational: A Disabled Feminist Talks Back.<\/em><\/P><\/p>\n

In a review, feminist icon Gloria Steinem raved, \u201cI\u2019ve known Harilyn Rousso as a powerful activist and gifted artist, but with this revelatory book, she becomes something even rarer: a storyteller who conveys her uniqueness and so helps us to discover our own. Don\u2019t Call Me Inspirational<\/em> is irresistible to read, honest, insightful and universal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rousso is a psychotherapist and founder of the Networking Project for Disabled Women and Girls of the YWCA\/NYC, a pioneering mentoring program that has been replicated widely. She is also president of Disabilities Unlimited Consulting Services, which provides education and training on disability equity issues.<\/p>\n

In 2003, Rousso was selected by the National Women\u2019s History Project as an honoree for National Women\u2019s History Month. <\/p>\n

She is a former board member of the National Women\u2019s Hall of Fame, the Center for Women Policy Studies, the Ms. Foundation for Women, the Sister Fund and Educational Equity Concepts, and a former commissioner with the New York City Commission on Human Rights.<\/p>\n

Rousso\u2019s free, public reading is co-sponsored by the Catharine S. Eberly Center for Women, the School of Interdisciplinary Studies, and the Department of Women\u2019s and Gender Studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Harilyn Rousso will read from her memoir, \u201cDon\u2019t Call Me Inspirational: A Disabled Feminist Talks Back,\u201d Wednesday, Jan. 29, at 5:45 p.m. in Memorial Field House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,51],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}