F232. New Suns: Afrofuturist and Cyborg Aesthetics
Friday, March 6, 2020
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm
Participants
Karolyn Gehrig is a queer disabled artist, writer, advocate and performer known for creating #HospitalGlam, a social media movement which uses site-specific photography to reclaim clinical space, enable self-advocacy, and boost disabled voices. Her work has appeared in the Hammer Museum and Guernica.
Jillian Weise is a poet, performance artist, and disability rights activist. Her essays have appeared in Granta, The New York Times, and Tin House. Her books include The Amputee's Guide to Sex, The Colony, The Book of Goodbyes, and Cyborg Detective.
Harmony Holiday is the author of Negro League Baseball, winner of the Motherwell Poetry Prize. She has a BA from UC Berkeley and an MFA from Columbia University, and she runs a boutique production house devoted to the crossing between archiving, improvisation, myth, and black music.
Alyssa Moore is an editor, screenwriter, and visual poet who holds degrees from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she received fellowships and taught fiction and poetry, and Harvard University. Her work explores queerness, blackness, and digital intimacy.
Cade Leebron holds an MFA from The Ohio State University. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, American Literary Review, Electric Literature, and elsewhere.