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Radical Acceptance and Recovery with Grace Spence Green

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  • Free
  • Discussion
  • Relaxed
  • British Sign Language interpreted
  • British Sign Language interpreted (online)
  • Speech-to-text (online)
  • Speech-to-text
A portrait of Grace Spence Green looking directly at the camera. Grace sits crossed legged in her wheelchair and wears round, pale yellow glasses.
Grace Spence Green. Portrait: Steven Pocock. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

What you’ll do

Join a conversation between Grace Spence Green and Kyla Harris, as Grace explores her journey from spinal-injury patient to qualified doctor and disabled activist. They'll be discussing networks of care, the value we place on independence in favour of interdependence, and what acceptance truly looks like. The discussion will be followed by a Q&A, where you'll have a chance to ask questions. 

This event marks the launch of Grace’s book, ‘To Exist As I Am: A Doctor’s Notes on Recovery and Radical Acceptance’.

At the end of the evening, you can enjoy refreshments, buy the book and have it signed by Grace.

There will be a chill-out space on level 1 available for everyone to use throughout the evening. 

Dates

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Past

Need to know

Location

We’ll be in the Reading Room on level 2. You can walk up the spiral staircase to the Reading Room door, or take the lift up and then head left from the Library Desk.

Place not guaranteed

Booking a ticket for a free, in-person event does not guarantee you a place. You should aim to arrive 15 minutes before the event is scheduled to start to claim your place. If you do not arrive on time, your place may be given to someone on the waiting list.

Guaranteed

Booking a ticket guarantees you entry to the online event. You will be given joining instructions in your confirmation email.

Relaxed

This is a relaxed event, which means that if you need to, you are welcome to move around and make noise at any time.

British Sign Language interpreted

This event will have British Sign Language interpretation.

British Sign Language interpreted (online)

This event is British Sign Language interpreted. An interpreter will be embedded in the event livestream or visible on screen for online viewers.

Speech-to-text (online)

This event will be live-transcribed for online viewers. Online ticketholders will receive a link to view the captions in a separate window.

Speech-to-text

This event will be live-transcribed. The captions will be displayed on a screen in-venue.

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About your contributors

Grace is seated in a wheelchair positioned on a patterned tiled floor inside a grand building. They wear a vibrant green shirt, denim jeans and trainers, and have short brown hair.

Grace Spence Green

Author

Grace Spence Green is a junior doctor working to challenge the narratives surrounding disability, medicine and identity. In 2018, aged 22 and a fourth year medical student, she sustained a spinal cord injury and is now a full-time wheelchair user. Since her lifechanging injury, Grace has become a passionate advocate for the disabled community, appearing in the BMJ and Guardian, and across TV and radio.

A photograph of Kyla who has short, dark hair and is wearing a green jacket, sitting in a wheelchair.

Kyla Harris

Facilitator

Kyla is an award winning writer, actor and producer. She is chair of We Crip Film at the British Film Institute (BFI), a British Arts Film and Television Awards (BAFTA) member and a board member of FWD-DOC. She was awarded BAFTA Breakthrough 2024 and was nominated for a BAFTA in the Emerging Talent category.

Michelle Wood

British Sign Language interpreter

Michelle has been a qualified British Sign Language Interpreter for over 20 years and has been working with the Wellcome Collection for the last 10 years. She loves being a small part of the team who ensure that the Deaf Community have full access to what, in her view, is one of the best places in London. NRCPD no: 1009790