Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Faculty of Law’s Centre for Feminist Legal Studies as part of the Marlee Kline Lecture in Social Justice. Bonnie Sherr Klein is a documentary filmmaker and long-time activist in the feminist and disability movements. In this lecture she shares her lived experience of disability as documented in her journal entries and film. She points out that disability inevitably touches us all, and proposes that human rights for people living with disabilities is not ‘merely’ a justice issue but an opportunity for all of us to be our most human.
This lecture honours the memory of Marlee Gayle Kline, a member of the Faculty of Law from 1989. Professor Kline died in 2001 after a lengthy and determined struggle with leukemia. Her work on feminist legal theory and critical race theory, child welfare law and policy, law’s continued colonialism, and restructuring of the social welfare state is internationally acclaimed. This lectureship not only recognizes Marlee’s rich contribution to the law school community but also reflects her belief in the central role social justice concerns must play in legal education and law.
Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library
Klein, B. S. (1997). Slow dance: A story of stroke, love and disability. Toronto: Vintage Canada.
Klein, B. S. (1996). An ally as well as a partner in practice. The British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 59(1), 23-24. doi:10.1177/030802269605900107. [Link]
Klein, B. S. (1987). Illusions and realities in the media. Canadian Woman Studies/Les Cahiers De La Femme, 8(1), 71. [Link]
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