Noticing, observing and keeping disability as erotic: a reading with Dr. Therí Pickens

Dr. Therí A. Pickens received her undergraduate degree in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and her PhD in Comparative Literature from UCLA. She is a poet-scholar who focuses on Arab American Studies, Black Studies, Comparative Literature and Disability Studies. Dr. Pickens is currently the Charles A Dana Professor of English & Africana at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. In her debut poetry collection, What Had Happened Was, Therí A. Pickens investigates the complex structures of Black storytelling.

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