SESSIONS and PRESENTERS
DISABILITY, QUEERNESS, AND POLITICAL PERFORMANCE
Kim Hall, Bob McRuer, Jim Ferris
ALL-GIRL ACTION: CRIP, QUEER WOMEN IN PERFORMANCE
Carrie Sandahl, Ann Fox, Joan Lipkin, Julia Trahan, Terry Galloway
LEGAL PERSPECTIVES
Chris Daley, Carolyn Tyjewski, Susan Aranoff
THE POLITICS AND EXPERIENCE OF COMING OUT
David J. Connor, Santiago Solis, Jan Valle, Nora O'Connor, Robin Ottesen,
Michael Sugarman, Tom Lakritz
THEORIZING QUEER DISABLED/DEAF EXPERIENCE
Kim Surkan, John B. Kelly, Amy Delorenzo
EXPLORING QD SEXUALITIES
Nancy Ferreyra, Raymond J. Aguilera, Loree Erickson, AJ, Julia Trahan
PARTNERS, LOVERS, & ALLIES: CELEBRATING RELATIONSHIPS
Katherine Babad, Samuel Lurie, Danny Kodmur
CROSSROADS & BORDERLANDS:
NARRATIVES OF INTERSECTING OPPRESSIONS
Amanda Tink, Chris Bell, Michael Robinson, Heather MacAllister
QUEER CARE
Doneley Meris, Laura Hershey, Alex Anderson
IS INTERSEX A DISABILITY? LESSONS FROM DISABILITY ACTIVISM IN BUILDING
THE INTERSEX MOVEMENT
Emi Koyama, Cheryl Chase, Diana Courvant, Sumi Colligan
(IN)VISIBILITY, RECOGNITION, & MARGINALIZATION: QUEERS WITH NON-APPARENT
DISABILITIES
Cal Montgomery, Peggy Munson, Willy Wilkinson
QUEERING DISABILITY ACTIVISM, CRIPPING QUEER ACTIVISM
Robin Stephens, Carrie Lucas, Kevin Irvine, Zan Thorton, Charone Pagett
ALLIES: WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE?
Aruna Mitra, Cory Silverberg, Leah Dolmage, Fran Odette
THE IMPORTANCE OF STORY
Laurie McKiernan, Bob Guter
SEELEY QUEST AND EMILY BENDER: TWO PERFORMANCES
WRITERS READ THEIR WORK I: POETRY AND MEMOIR
Laura Hershey, Kathleen Rose Winter, Judith Grant, Raymond Luczak
WRITERS READ THEIR WORK II: POETRY, FICTION, AND EROTICA
Raymond J. Aguilera, Nomy Lamm, Leah Gardner, S. Naomi Finklestein
CREATING CULTURE: QD ARTISTS AND THEIR WORK
Riva Lehrer, John Killacky
POP CULTURE ROUNDTABLE
Amber Feldman
PLUS EXHIBITS AND VIDEOS BY:
Clove Tsindle
Janice Josephine Carney
Lawrence Shapiro
Hilary Russian
Kari Ann Owen
Syndy Sharp
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Poet, essayist, and rabble-rouser, ELI CLARE is the author of Exile
and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation and a member of the
organizing committee that brings you this conference. Eli's work has
been published in a variety of anthologies and periodicals, including
Victoria Brownsworth's Restricted Access: Lesbians on Disability and
Bob Guter and John Killacky's forthcoming anthology of writing by disabled
gay men. With a long history as a dyke and a joyful present as a tranny
whose life doesn't fit into the gender binary, Eli walks the borders
and embraces complexity.
DIANA COURVANT's activist buttons and t-shirts, laid end to end, would
stretch from San Francisco to Portland, Oregon, the lovely city she
calls home. But she doesn't have time for that kind of thing, what with
all the writing and speaking about domestic violence, anti-racism, disability
rights, and trans, intersex, and queer liberation. Her identities include,
but are not limited to: disabled, total dyke, activist, trans, smut-writer,
and fire-eating babelicious goddess-chick. She also makes a mean peanut
curry.
VICKY D'AOUST began writing for Lesbian Contradiction
shortly after adopting her daughter over 15 years ago. Since then, she
has been published in legal journals, three book-length anthologies
about lesbian identity and disability parenting, and many other collections
of stories. She watches X Files, doesn't usually attend conferences,
and prefers the virtual life to the corporeal one. This will be her
first major appearance since Outrights Conference in Vancouver in 1991.
She is a bi-cultural, bi-polar, borderline academic with multiple disabilities.
Text of Vicky's presentation.
EMI KOYAMA is a multi-issue social justice slut, synthesizing
feminist, Asian, survivor, dyke, queer, sex worker, intersex, genderqueer,
and crip politics. These factors, while not a complete descriptor of
who she is, have all impacted her life. Emi is currently the Program
Assistant for Intersex Society of North America, and the Community Board
Chair for Survivor Project. Emi lives in Portland, Oregon, and has been
putting the emi back in feminism since 1975. Email Emi at emi@eminism.org.
Painter RIVA LEHRER has been showing her work in Chicago since 1980.
She focuses on the ways in which the shape of one's body affects the
shape of one's life, using the language of figure painting. For the
last few years she has been most interested in images of people with
physical disabilities. Her current project, "Circle Stories,"
begun in 1997, is a series of portraits of artists and academics who
have significant disabilities and explore disability in their own work.
Participants include Eli Clare, John Hockenberry, Susan Nussbaum, Tekki
Lomnicki, and Hollis Sigler. Work from "Circle Stories" and
other series have been shown in galleries and museums across the country.
Riva was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1958. She attended the University
of Cincinnati and the School of the Art Institute. She teaches now at
the School of the Art Institute, the Evanston Art Center, and is a visiting
artist at a number of other universities.
RAYMOND LUCZAK edited the Lambda Literary Award-nominated
anthology Eyes Of Desire: A Deaf Gay and Lesbian Reader (Alyson); he
also wrote St. Michael's Fall: Poems (Deaf Life Press). The Tactile
Mind Press is publishing his next two books-Silence Is a Four-Letter
Word: On Art and Deafness and This Way to the Acorns: Poems--at the
same time this July. Excerpts from his deaf gay novel, Men with Their
Hands, have appeared in various periodicals. Seven of his plays have
been workshopped and produced around the country; his next show A Pair
of Hands: Deaf Gay Monologues will premiere on Friday, June 28th as
part of the Queer@HERE Theater Festival at the HERE Theater in New York
City. A screenwriter and filmmaker, he lives in New York City where
he is completing his debut feature film Ghosted, which he produced and
directed. He has just completed his first DVD project called Manny ASL:
Stories in American Sign Language, which he also directed; it is coming
out at Deaf Way II this July. His web site is www.raymondluczak.com.