{"id":43128,"date":"2017-01-25T03:10:48","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T07:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=43128"},"modified":"2017-01-23T15:47:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T19:47:02","slug":"authoractivist-to-discuss-grappling-with-cure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/01_25_2017\/authoractivist-to-discuss-grappling-with-cure","title":{"rendered":"Author\/activist to discuss ‘Grappling With Cure’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Award-winning writer and activist Eli Clare will visit campus to give a talk Monday, Jan. 30, at 6 p.m. in Memorial Field House Room 1140. <\/p>\n

\u201cEli Clare is unique in disability studies,\u201d said Dr. Jim Ferris, Ability Center of Greater Toledo Endowed Chair in Disability Studies. \u201cAs an independent scholar and writer, he has been pushing the field\u2019s thinking forward since the 1990s. His book, \u2018Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation,\u2019 marked a turning point in the field, and Eli continues to be a beacon for those explicating what it means to be ‘other’ in a world of norms.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Clare<\/p><\/div>Clare, who on his website identifies as \u201cwhite, disabled and genderqueer,\u201d will present a talk titled \u201cGrappling With Cure.\u201d He will use memoir, history and critical analysis to explore the ideology of cure: the deeply held belief that bodies and minds considered broken need to be fixed. <\/p>\n

According to Clare, \u201cCure serves many purposes. It saves lives, manipulates lives, and prioritizes some lives over others. It provides comfort, makes profits, justifies violence, and promises resolution to body-mind loss.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cClare grapples with this knot of contradictions, maintaining that neither an anti-cure politics nor a pro-cure worldview can account for the messy, complex relationships we have with our body-minds,\u201d Ferris said.<\/p>\n

The stories he tells range widely, stretching from disability stereotypes to environmental activism, gender transition to skin lightening creams. <\/p>\n

\u201cUltimately, he reveals cure to be an ideology grounded in the twin notions of normal and natural \u2014 slippery and powerful, necessary and damaging all at the same time,\u201d Ferris, professor and chair of disability studies, said.<\/p>\n

In addition to \u201cExile and Pride,\u201d Clare is author of \u201cThe Marrow’s Telling: Words in Motion and Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling With Cure,\u201d which will be released in February.<\/p>\n

The free, public event is present by the UT Disability Studies Program.<\/p>\n

For accommodations and further information, call the Disability Studies Program at 419.530.7245. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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