Today's Program:  Disrupting Ableism with Artful Activism

Featuring Lateef McLeod and D.J. Saravese

Lateef McLeod [1] 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 [2], in 2010, and his second poetry book, Whispers of Krip Love, Shouts of Krip Revolution [3], in 2020.

 

David James Savarese [4] [5] 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 [6] in 2017-2019, he is also co-producer and narrative commentator of the Peabody award-winning documentary Deej: Inclusion Shouldn’t Be a Lottery [7]. 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/ [8]

photo: Ksenia Makagonova [9] via Unsplash

Produced by Mark Romoser with editing help and support from Sheela Gunn-Cushman and Adrienne Lauby

[1] https://www.lateefhmcleod.com/

[2] https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3ALaTeef+H+McLeod&s=relevancerank&text=LaTeef+H+McLeod&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1

[3] https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3ALaTeef+H+McLeod&s=relevancerank&text=LaTeef+H+McLeod&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1

[4] https://www.djsavarese.com/

[5] https://www.djsavarese.com/

[6] https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/open-society-youth-exchange-fellowships

[7] https://www.deejmovie.com/

[8] https://www.thehastingscenter.org/who-we-are/our-research/current-projects/the-art-of-flourishing-conversations-on-disability-and-technology/

[9] https://unsplash.com/@dearseymour