Disability Pride Writing Workshop with Ire'ne Lara Silva

Join us for part or all of our day of Disability Pride month programs with Ire'ne Lara Silva, 2023 Texas State Poet Laureate.

1:00-2:30 PM Writing Workshop "The Stories Our Bodies Tell"

Our bodies are more than height and weight, color and shape, age and ability. Our bodies are also storytellers. They hold our childhoods, our joys, our pleasures, our hurts, our adventures. They tell stories about families and relationships. They dream the future and reveal it day by day. This writing workshop, open to writers and non-writers and everyone in between will attempt to draw out the stories of our bodies and how they’ve moved in the world.

3:00-4:00 PM Reading + Q&A for the 10th anniversary Spanish/English bilingual edition of Blood Sugar Canto!

"Blood Sugar Canto! Ire'ne Lara Silva's third book, is a powerful hymn to life and to her own body by a "curandera-poet" struggling to transmute the fear and despair of diabetes into healing. She sings of the syringes, the paraphernalia of this new world she must live in, its losses and griefs, its pain, and her memories of those in her family who have died of this disease."