What Our Bodies Know: Essays at the Intersection of Feminism & Disability
On January 19, 2024, students, faculty, family and friends gathered to celebrate the launch of What Our Bodies Know: Essays at the Intersection of Feminism & Disability. The book is an anthology of 28 creative nonfiction pieces written by students from the course WOMN 2540: Feminisms and Disability in Contemporary Literature from the women’s and gender studies program. Professor Christine Stewart collected the essays from students who had taken the class over three terms - winter 2022, spring 2022 and fall 2022.
At the launch party, eleven students read from the collection and then the authors circulated through the crowd signing copies for their families and for themselves similar to a class yearbook gathering. The students were clearly proud to showcase their work that covered a broad range of topics such as hearing loss, surviving domestic violence, bipolar disorder, ADHD, emotionality and learning disability.
The first printing of What Our Bodies Know is sold out! To add your name to a list to obtain a copy from the second printing, email Christine.Stewart@umanitoba.ca.
Read more about and see photos from the launch on UM Today
Project funded by the Margaret Laurence Endowment Fund.