Book Club – Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the 21st Century edited by Alice Wong
The next Massey Book Club takes place in person only on Monday, December 6th. Please join us from 7:45-9:00pm for a presentation and conversation about the book followed by a Q+A with the audience.
If you would like to register for (formal) dinner (6:30pm), please do so in the form below.
We welcome our members to dine together in-Hall prior to the event. Senior Fellows, Quadrangle Society Members and Alumni who graduated more than 5 year ago, please register below.
Junior Fellows, Residents and new alumni, please reserve your seat for dinner with the Porter at porter@masseycollege.ca. Please include “RSVP for Book Club Dinner” in your subject line of the email.
Book your seat at dinner by Friday, December 3 at 6:30pm.
Cancellations with less than 48 hours will be billed.
About the book
From original pieces by up-and-coming authors like Keah Brown and Haben Girma, to blog posts, manifestos, eulogies, testimonies to Congress, and beyond: this anthology gives a glimpse of the vast richness and complexity of the disabled experience, highlighting the passions, talents, and everyday lives of this community. It invites readers to question their own assumptions and understandings. It celebrates and documents disability culture in the now. It looks to the future and past with hope and love.
Presentation by Robin Roger and Junior Fellow Maddy De Welles. Moderated by Alum Niyosha Keyzad.
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Speakers
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Robin RogerRegistered Psychotherapist; former fiction review editor, Literary Review of Canada
Robin Roger divides her time between mental health, somatic education, and literary pursuits.
She is a Registered Psychotherapist in private practice and an authorized trainee teacher of the Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education. She was the fiction review editor of the Literary Review of Canada for over a decade as well as one of the founders of Ars Medica: A Journal of Medicine, The Arts and Humanities, now in its 15th year of publication, and the coordinating editor of the anthology it generated: Body and Soul: Narratives of Healing from Ars Medica, which is available from University of Toronto Press. Disability narratives have appeared frequently in these publications. She is a contributor to the Classical Music Web Site Ludwig Van Toronto, for which she wrote a 2 part series entitled Music and Mobility: My Experience Going to a Concert with a Broken Foot. She has published book reviews, short stories and essays in a variety of publications including the Globe and Mail, the National Post and the Literary Review of Canada.
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Maddy De WellesJunior Fellow, Massey College; PhD candidate, Social Justice Education at OISEMaddy DeWelles (she/her) is a fifth-year Junior Fellow and PhD candidate in disability studies and childhood studies. She studies at the University of Toronto in the Social Justice Education department at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE). Her work and research focuses on representations of Down syndrome, and how a diagnosis of Down syndrome is communicated to parents before, at, and following the birth of a baby. Maddy also loves teaching and interacting with students of all ages.
