Ady Barkan: Love and Death, Hope and Resistance

In this talk, the paralyzed political activist Ady Barkan explores the existential questions that he has faced in the wake of his terminal diagnosis with ALS, and that the American people have faced under the Trump administration: What kind of life will our children have, and what kind of world will they inherit? Which injustices must we accept and which ones demand our resistance? How should we spend our precious time on this earth, and how should we die?

Ady Barkan is an organizer at the Center for Popular Democracy and the founder of the Be A Hero campaign. He is the author of Eyes to the Wind: A Memoir of Love and Death, Hope and Resistance.

Sponsored by the IHC’s Critical Mass series, the Department of English, and the Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment