Works-in-Progress Series: STROKE BOOK: The Queer Story of a Blindspot, by Jonathan Alexander


 Center for Medical Humanities     Feb 17 2021 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Zoom

Jonathan Alexander wearing black shirt and khaki pants and eyeglasses sitting at a table with bookshelf behind

STROKE BOOK emerged out of a health crisis in the summer of 2019, and a need to think and feel that crisis through my sexuality, my changing sense of dis/ability, and my experience of time. At a basic level, the book, largely drafted in the immediate aftermath of the crisis (a minor stroke), chronicles a very mortal encounter with time, with my recognition that we are never not beholden to time, even as we often refuse opportunities to confront the feelings and realities of our beholdenness. But it is also a recognition that queer time has its own rhythms, fluctuations, and perversities. I experienced — and continue to experience — my health crisis in very particular ways, ways that I cannot disentangle from my experiences in this culture as a queer person. This book is a refusal to engage in disentanglement.

Date: Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Time: 4:00-5:00 PM Pacific

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