Join us for this exciting event!
Diversity & Disability: Building Imaginary Worlds in Literature to
Confront Issues of Social Justice
Presented by: Word Vancouver
Diversity & Disability: Building Imaginary Worlds in Literature to
Confront Issues of Social Justice
Presented by: Word Vancouver
Join us for this exciting event!
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Diversity & Disability: Building Imaginary Worlds in Literature to Confront Issues of Social Justice
Presented by: Word Vancouver
Type: In Conversation
What do mythical creatures and dystopian worlds have to say about the planet we inhabit? Where do issues of disability and race collide and intersect?
Social issues can be addressed in a myriad of ways, but fictional tales bring in an element of fantasy and magic, taking us outside of ourselves, and perhaps, from that viewpoint, we are better able to see and understand.
Hosted by Adelle Purdham
Readers:
Amanda Leduc (The Centaur’s Wife, Penguin Random House)
Jael Richardson (Gutter Child, HarperCollins)
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Our Host
Adelle Purdham
Amanda Leduc
Amanda Leduc is the author of The Centaur’s Wife (Random House Canada, 2021), as well as the non-fiction book Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space (Coach House Books, 2020) and the novel The Miracles of Ordinary Men (ECW Press, 2013). She has cerebral palsy and lives in Hamilton, Ontario, where she works as the Communications Coordinator for the Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD), Canada's first festival for diverse authors and stories.
Jael Richardson
JAEL RICHARDSON is the executive director of the FOLD literary festival, the books columnist on CBC Radio’s q and an outspoken advocate on issues of diversity. She is the author of The Stone Thrower: A Daughter’s Lesson, a Father’s Life, a memoir based on her relationship with her father, CFL quarterback Chuck Ealey. The memoir received a CBC Bookie Award, an Arts Acclaim Award and a My People Award. A children’s edition was published by Groundwood Books. Her essay “Conception” is part of Room’s first Women of Colour edition, and excerpts from her first play, my upside down black face, appear in the anthology T-Dot Griots: An Anthology of Toronto’s Black Storytellers. Jael Richardson received an MFA in creative writing from the University of Guelph. She lives in Brampton, Ontario.
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