THE HUMAN LIBRARY®
Place: Student Life Building - Leadership Lounge/Room 111
Date: Wednesday, September 4, 2019 | Time: 5:00PM - 8:00PM
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SURVIVING THE MIDDLE EAST 5pm - 6pm
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My experience visiting the Middle East. |
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NAVIGATING LIFE AFTER SPINAL CORD INJURY 5pm - 8pm |
Chapter 1: Navigating from a nursing home or hospital to permanent residence Chapter 2: Making sure you request all necessary equipment before going home (equipment will vary depending on severity/level of spinal cord injury) Chapter 3: Connecting with spinal cord injury advocates and organizations Chapter 4: Having good medical insurance could make the difference whether you might walk again after a spinal cord injury or never walk again. |
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LIVING WITH EPILEPSY 5pm - 8pm |
What do Cameron Boyce, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Vincent Van Gogh, Dante Alighieri, Lil Wayne, Danny Glover, Theodore Roosevelt, Neil Young, Florence Griffith Joyner, and Prince have in common? They live(d) with epilepsy. Chapter 1: Adult onset epilepsy Chapter 2: Types of epilepsy and seizures Chapter 3: Isolation Chapter 4: Confronting the stigma Chapter 5: How I manage my epilepsy - medicine, staying active, healing |
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FIGHTING TO EXIST 5pm - 8pm |
I was born with a neurology that makes me feel like existence is a daily struggle to be heard, seen, understood, and avoid being judged. Every single day since birth, I've felt like I don't really belong anywhere. After three decades of wondering why I've always felt like this, I finally figured it out; I was very recently diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, hyperlexia, and sensory processing disorder. I am also what professionals label a "twice exceptional (2e)" person - someone who is exceptionally or profoundly intellectually "gifted" but is multiply disabled. My neurology is atypical; I don't know how to "be" in a world in which the majority has a neurology drastically different from mine. Chapter 1: The "Weird" Child Chapter 2: Learning To Hide Behind A Mask Chapter 3: Breaking Free, Falling, Hitting Rock Bottom, and Trying Again Chapter 4: Embracing the Natural Anti-conformist In Me Chapter 5: 2019: The Year All Was Made Clear (But Not Any Easier) Chapter 6: What We Know About Autism is Wrong: Dismantling Our Ableism |
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STICKS AND STONES MAY BREAK MY BONES AND WORDS HURT TOO! 6pm - 7:40pm
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Home was the Bronx, the birthplace of hip hop and break dancing. Growing up in the 60's and 70's, it was also a place of tight knit communities and some didn't welcome outsiders. This is the story of a woman whose educational journey began with being bused from her South Bronx neighborhood and the experiences that shaped her life and career. It is a story about rising above difficult circumstances to be the change we want to see.
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MAKING LEMONADE - A STORY OF TRAGEDY TO HOPE 5pm - 7pm |
The ingredients of a young male Bronxite entail his parents being murdered and the passing of his grandfather all before middle school. After he was adopted he received case management counseling and extra school services. Upon entering middle school, as one may imagine, he got into fights, suspensions, and poor grades. Yet, despite these ingredients for disaster, his life's recipe was changed and hope was added as a key ingredient. Chapter 1: Dealing with death before middle school. Chapter 2: Middle School challenges. Chapter 2: Life, change and hope.
My Bronx Story - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEpefGshRQI
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The Butterfly Effect - Living with Lupus 5pm - 7pm
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To many people I look normal like anyone else but inside my body is a war that is so confusing it even confuses my cells. What is it like living with lupus? Going to school, work, and even relationships.
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