[AD] Golem Girl: Riva Lehrer in conversation with David Mitchell

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In Golem Girl, artist and writer Riva Lehrer talks about growing up with spina bifida, her introduction to disability culture, and how becoming a portrait painter transformed the way she viewed her body, sexuality, and other measures of normal . Known for his works focusing on physical identity and the socially embattled body, Lehrer combines magnificent portraits with vivid cinematic prose and invites us to stretch into a world where bodies circulate between all possible forms of what it means to be human. Lehrer is joined in conversation by David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas and Utopia Avenue), who praises Golem Girl as an “unflinching social history of disability over the past six decades; and a hymn to life, love, family and spirit.”

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