Today’s Program: Disrupting Ableism with Artful Activism
Featuring Lateef McLeod and D.J. Saravese
Lateef McLeod
is a poet, blogger, activist, and PhD candidate in the Anthropology and Social Change Doctoral program at California Institute for Integral Studies. His poetry, activism, and scholarship are all informed by his experience living in the Bay Area with cerebral palsy. He published his first book of poetry, A Declaration of a Body af Love, in 2010, and his second poetry book, Whispers of Krip Love, Shouts of Krip Revolution, in 2020.
David James Savarese
is an artful activist and founder of Listen2Us: Writing Our Own Futures. The recipient of an Open Society Foundations Human Rights Initiative Community Youth Fellowship in 2017-2019, he is also co-producer and narrative commentator of the Peabody award-winning documentary Deej: Inclusion Shouldn’t Be a Lottery. A graduate of Oberlin College, he has published widely, including his chapbook, A Doorknob for the Eye, and a notable essay in the 2018 Best American Essays, “Passive Plants.”
This event was part of The Hastings Center’s events series, “The Art of Flourishing: Conversations on Disability,” supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. https://www.thehastingscenter.org/who-we-are/our-research/current-projects/the-art-of-flourishing-conversations-on-disability-and-technology/
photo: Ksenia Makagonova via Unsplash