Golem Girl: Riva Lehrer in Conversation with David Mitchell
About the Event:
In Golem Girl, artist and writer Riva Lehrer recounts growing up with spina bifida, her introduction to Disability Culture, and how becoming a portrait artist transformed the way she viewed her body, her sexuality, and other measures of normal. Known for artwork that focuses on physical identity and the socially challenged body, Lehrer combines magnificent portraits with vivid, cinematic prose, and invites us to stretch ourselves toward a world where bodies flow between all possible forms of what it is to be human. Lehrer is joined in conversation by David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas and Utopia Avenue), who praises Golem Girl as an “unflinching social history of disability over the last six decades; and a hymn to life, love, family, and spirit”.
- Click here to watch the program with American Sign Language interpretation and Closed Captions.
- Click here to listen to the program with Audio Descriptions.
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This week’s programs presented with the support of Fifth Third Bank.
About the Book:
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Event Details
This week’s programs presented with the support of Fifth Third Bank.
[Event tile image description: The event image at the top left of the event page is a photograph of Riva Lehrer. Lehrer smiles at the camera wearing a black sleeveless top, two necklaces, red earrings, and black rimmed glasses. Lehrer wears her pink hair cut above her shoulders with pink and white bangs. The background is white with two grey stripes at either end of the photograph. Photo credit: Nathan Keay.]