June 22, 2021
In my series of ongoing lectures, readings, and exhibitions with writer and disability activist Kenny Fries, we have a major new workshop and reading coming up in October. On Monday, October 18, 3pm Eastern Time, at Syracuse University’s School of Law Burton Blatt Institute will host an online event with Perel, writer and activist Kenny Fries, and visual artist and writer Quintan Ana Wikswo, about our respective work on Aktion T4 – the Nazi eugenics killing machine designed and implemented to for the murder of disabled people. The event will be moderated by Julia Watts Belser, a rabbi and long time advocate for disability and gender justice who is associate professor of Jewish Studies in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Georgetown University.
The work I will be discussing is my writing published in Tin House “Tiny Urn: The Little Kreschmar” and my writing published in WITNESS entitled “Charité”, along with the literary and performance and film work VOLKERKUNDE, and my United States’ based works “Mountain Sweep” and “Sarah Buried Beneath Catalpa Beans, all of which have been widely published, anthologized, and exhibited.
The Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University reaches around the globe in its efforts to advance the civic, economic, and social participation of people with disabilities.
BBI builds on the legacy of Burton Blatt, former dean of SU’s School of Education and a pioneering disability rights scholar, to better the lives of people with disabilities. BBI has offices in Syracuse, Washington, DC, and Atlanta.
Led by Professor Peter Blanck, BBI is mindful of the strong ties between one’s ability to earn income and fully participate in their communities. The Institute’s work therefore focuses on two interconnected Innovation Areas: Economic Participation and Community Participation. Through program development, research, and public policy guidance in these Innovation Areas, BBI advances the full inclusion of people with disabilities.
