Join us in conversation with Cyree, Cy, and T as we explore the intersections of disability and literature.

We will provide ASL interpretation and CART captioning for this event, which participants will be able to join by video or phone.

Speakers

• Cyree Jarelle Johnson (he/him) is a poet and writer from Piscataway, NJ. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Boston Review, Vice, and ArtNews among other publications. He earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University. SLINGSHOT, his first collection of poetry, won a 2020 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry, and is available now from Nightboat Books. He was a 2020 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow and the inaugural Brooklyn Public Library Poet-In-Residence.

• T. S. Banks (he/they/ze) is a Black & QTDisabled, non-binary teaching artist, poet, and playwright from Madison, WI. He is the founder of Loud ‘N UnChained Theater Co and co-founder of Sweet Water Liberation Lab. Their work addresses visioning for Black Liberation, a critique of the medical system, radical care + access, madness, QT Liberation, disability justice, abolition and cross-movement solidarity.

• The Cyborg Jillian Weise's books include The Amputee's Guide to Sex (2007, 2017); the novel The Colony (2010); The Book of Goodbyes (2013); Cyborg Detective (2019) and the chapbook Give It to Alfie Tonight (2020). Cy started Borg4Borg Productions and directed A Kim Deal Party. It is inaccessible and unavailable to nondisabled audiences. Cy's memoir is forthcoming from Ecco in 2023.

Moderator: Lydia X. Z. Brown, AWN Director of Policy, Advocacy, and External Affairs

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[Image: Event banner shows paper with cursive writing on them. There are three people. First is Cyree, a black trans person with locs pushed to the side under a black hat smiling at the camera in a multicolored leopard print shirt. Second is Cy, a white cyborg wearing a vest with lots of gold zippers. Cy's hand is raised to one side. Cy's back is not straight. Third is T, a dark skinned Black QT Disabled & fat poet. He has on a gold sweater and a dark green button up, glasses, and locs with gold tips. Text says, Crip Cultural Work: Disabled and Writing Literature, 18 May 2022 at 7pm Eastern / 4pm Pacific. The corner shows the AWN logo - a large "a" with a dragonfly on it, and the words awnnetwork.org.]