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Poetry, Poetics and Experiential Knowledge of Disability


A conversation with Tea Gerbeza and Emilia Nielsen: November 24, 2021

Book cover reads Still living the edges a disabled women's reader edited by Diane Driedger. The water colour background image displays the outline of a person marked all over with red blotches.

Poet and professor Emilia Nielsen, and poet and multimedia artist Tea Gerbeza explore the many ways disability shows up in life, art, and writing. Nielsen and Gerbeza urge for a rethinking of disability poetry so that it might include fierce love, pleasure, and even joy, all while unpacking ableism and ableist common sense logics. Here, the poetry and poetics of disability aspire to be as disruptive and unruly as the bodies and minds from which the work emerges.


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