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