![]() ![]() This account is an effort to describe the terrain. She writes, “Spinal cord injury has cast me into a surreal neurological wasteland that I traverse day and night. In 2003 Professor Crosby broke her neck in a bicycle accident. Rather, Crosby lives on in a body undone, a life unfinished. ![]() The discussion considers the significance of Crosby’s narrative and its resistance to the terms of either a victim narrative or a narrative of triumph. ![]() The event begins with a reading by the author, followed by a discussion with disability studies scholars Gayle Salamon and Leigh Gilmore, writers and memoirists Lisa Cohen, Maggie Nelson and Gayle Pemberton, and queer theorist Laura Grappo. “Body Undone” focuses on Christina Crosby’s forthcoming memoir of living with disability, A Body, Undone: Living on After Great Pain. ![]()
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