Sami Schalk (she/hers) is a fat, Black, queer, disabled pleasure artist and professor of Gender & Women’s Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison who celebrates and centers pleasure as a tactic for healing and liberation. Her scholarship focuses on disability, race, and gender in contemporary American literature and culture. Schalk is the author of Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction (2018) and Black Disability Politics (2022). Schalk has received art commissions from the Ford Foundation Gallery, NYC (2020). Her art was most recently featured in the exhibition, Indisposable (2020-2022).
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