Lydia Brown, a noted Georgetown University social justice activist, will speak at Bellevue College from 1:30-3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 30 in the college’s College Carlson Theatre.

Brown’s presentation, “Beyond the imagined normal: disability, pride and culture,” will highlight how disability pride is possible in a social model of disability, as opposed to the medical model that most people in the U.S. grow up learning; what disability pride looks like in a society that doesn’t talk about disability the way it does other identities like race, ethnicity and gender; the concept of what is and isn’t ‘normal’ and who gets to create that concept.

The event is free and open to the public. Seating accommodations are available to those who need them and ASL interpreters will be available.

Bellevue College is located at 3000 Landerholm Circle S.E.