UCI Center for Medical Humanities, School of Medicine, and Abolition Medicine and Disability Justice presents:
"Golem Girl" Book Talk: Art, Medicine, and the Socially Challenged Body
with
Riva Lehrer
Join us for a selected live reading and conversation with the author on the medical humanities and the socially challenged body.
February 10th, 2025
12:00-1:00pm via Zoom*
Meeting ID: 914 9814 4014
Passcode: 210404
Riva Lehrer is an artist, writer, and curator who focuses on the socially challenged body. Recipient of multiple awards for her visual and literary work, Lehrer is best known for representations of people whose physical embodiment, sexuality, or gender identity have long been stigmatized. Lehrer’s memoir, Golem Girl, (One World/ Penguin Random House) won the 2020 Barbellion Prize for Literature and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is represented by Regal Hoffman & Associates, NYC, and Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago.