Dear Students,
You are invited to attend

The Human Library: Inclusion Matters

In celebration of the UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities

On Thursday December 3rd
From 11am-3pm

In the Collaboratory, 2nd Floor Scott Library
Approximately 20 “books” will be available to “borrow” from 11am-1pm and 1pm-3pm for short (20-minute) conversations. These books are not what one usually finds on a shelf, but are people who have volunteered to share their contents (stories) with you, as an interactive reader. As people they are part of a Human or Living Library; the first Human Library took place in Denmark in 2000. Since its inception it has gained an international presence providing opportunities for one-to-one conversations across difference to occur. As such it provides a significant opportunity for conversations that have the potential to develop new understandings of disability and diverse embodiments.

Readers and books are provided with the opportunity to interact in a space where the principles of dignity, respect, and the promotion of inclusion and acceptance are enacted. The books in this library will be students attending York University who live with visible and invisible disability and difference.

For more information please contact: YorkHumanLibrary@gmail.com

Check out the list of titles that will be available and their time slots:

Human Books Available from 11AM-1PM

 

Dis/Connective Tissue

Too Solitude: Developmental Disability After Deinstitutionalization

Living with Social Anxiety

Locating the visible and invisible: The Intersection of race, gender and disability

Alaha in Wonderland

Better Late than Never

What happens when food is seen as an enemy?

A Journey of Self-discovery, A Youth in Lost Land

The Secret Hell Inside Me

Silent Perfect Storm: Rigid Body, Scattered Mind, Restless Soul

State of Organized Disorganization

Human Books Available from 1PM-3PM

 

Pubic Hair Grows Between My Toes

Disabled Sex Worker

The Unknown Battle

Revolution Begins Within

From Exclusion to Inclusion: An Educational

Autobiography of Disability, and its Impact on my Education”

Bodies, Blackness and Disability

Mutts and Mental Health

Professors term it as ‘I am playing the mental health CARD’

Phenome Logical Accounts on Ritalin