UHCL Common Reader Program

Join the Common Reader Program for ReelAbilities Houston Film and Arts Festival on February 8, from 1-2pm in the UHCL Bayou Theater, as we highlight and celebrate stories about accessibility!

Join the Common Reader Program as we read and discuss our new 23-24 book, Alice Wong's edited collection, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century! Check back frequently to find programming updates around the book's essays by 37 disabled writers and advocates.

Hawks, we are very excited to announce our next year’s common reader selection: "What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City" by Mona Hanna-Attisha! Please join us next year for to engage in the conversation!

Synopsis: What the Eyes Don’t See is the inspiring story of how Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, alongside a team of researchers, parents, friends, and community leaders, discovered that the children of Flint, Michigan, were being exposed to lead in their tap water—and then battled her own government and a brutal backlash to expose that truth to the world. Paced like a scientific thriller, What the Eyes Don’t See reveals how misguided austerity policies, broken democracy, and callous bureaucratic indifference placed an entire city at risk. And at the center of the story is Dr. Mona herself—an immigrant, doctor, scientist, and mother whose family’s activist roots inspired her pursuit of justice. What the Eyes Don’t See is a riveting account of a shameful disaster that became a tale of hope, the story of a city on the ropes that came together to fight for justice, self-determination, and the right to build a better world for their—and all of our—children.