Community Conversation Series: Grappling with Cure - Three events with Eli Clare

The Palliative Care Institute is collaborating with the Women Gender Sexuality Studies Speaker series to sponsor two events with Eli Clare on March 7, 2017 on Western’s campus.

In Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure, writer, activist, and poet Eli Clare uses memoir, history, and critical analysis to explore ideas related to cure. Clare’s analysis ranges far beyond questions about the roles of palliative and curative care when faced with serious illness and end-of-life, stretching from disability stereotypes to weight loss surgery, gender transition to skin lightening creams. However, Clare’s critique of our society’s focus on cure at all costs, and the role of profit and often unreasonable promises of resolution in the search for cure, is pertinent to the work the Palliative Care Institute is undertaken in these domains and may provide a lens for continued community discussions about our choices at the end-of-life.

12 noon-1 pm in Miller Hall 105 – Brown Bag lunch with students and faculty: Eli will read excerpts from Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure followed by discussion, 

4-6 pm in Science, Mathematics, Technology Education building (SL) 120 – Eli will speak on "Gaping, Gawking, Staring" followed by discussion.   

7-8 pm at Village Books, Bellingham.  Reading from Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure.