Our Alberta (in Canada) university is looking for a speaker on disability issues. So far, the suggested speakers have been fairly predictable - sympathetic, mainly business or self-help related motivational speakers who focus on the ability to triumph in spite of all obstacles laid in one's path. This type of speaker would be in keeping with the kind of speaker that the university brings in each year - male, mobility-challenged, inspiring, and pointedly non-political.
I am on the committee that will organize the talk this year, and I'd like to expand the boundaries to include someone who will speak to the politics of disability, and who might even make people feel angry or guilty or thoughtful rather than simply warm and fuzzy. I wonder if anyone from Canada has any suggestions?
Best,
Claudia Malacrida
Sociology
University of Lethbridge
4401 University Drive
Lethbridge, Alberta
T1K 3M4
Tel: (403) 329-2738
Fax: (403) 329-2085
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