Spring 2025 Book Club Faculty Learning Community
This book club is hosted by Dr. Sapna Chopra, an Assistant Professor in the Human Services department. For Spring 2025, the book club meets on Zoom Fridays from 1-2:30pm, on February 28, March 14, March 28, April 11, April 25, and May 9. RSVP as soon as possible as space is limited. You can register through the FDC.
We’ll read True Biz by Sara Nović and Disability Visibility: First person stories from the 21st century edited by Alice Wong. This faculty book club will provide a space for participants to reflect on what these books teach us about disability justice, ourselves, and our work at CSUF in the classroom, with colleagues, and in the larger community.
This Faculty Learning Community (FLC) consists of six, 90-minute virtual meetings with each meeting worth 1.5 credits towards the FDC INCLUSIVE certificate on diversity and inclusion in teaching. The FDC will provide the books.
Book 1: True Biz
True Biz by Sara Nović is a coming of age story with themes related to sign language and lip-reading, disability rights, isolation and injustice, first love and loss, persistence, daring, and joy. This novel is an unforgettable journey into the Deaf community and a celebration of human connection.
Book 2: Disability Visibility: First person stories from the 21st century
Activist Alice Wong brings together an urgent, galvanizing collection of personal essays by contemporary disabled writers. Taken together, this anthology gives a glimpse of the vast richness and complexity of the disabled experience, highlighting the passions, talents, and everyday lives of this community. It invites readers to question their own assumptions and understandings. It celebrates and documents disability culture and looks to the future and past with hope and love.
