Disabled Woman at Large
Disabled people are everywhere these days – on the bus, on supermarket checkout lines, in the voting booth and at the movies. We have become a more visible presence in the social landscape, and a more persistent and unsettling element in political and cultural arenas. As part of that “we”, I have been a participant in this collective coming out over the past 35 years of my life.

What I Do
As a writer (My Body Politic and Claiming Disability: Knowledge & Identity), I have focused on taking ideas about disability into the public realm – to reveal what is hidden and misunderstood about the disability experience in America, and point toward more realistic, informative and transformative ways of thinking.

As a consultant I’ve brought that knowledge to bear on the vibrant disability arts movement. On the stage, the page, the screen and the canvas, disabled artists are using their unique configurations of body, voice and mind to create and innovate. As Special Consultant to the Non-Traditional Casting Project, I am collaborating on a variety of disability initiatives for professionals in the arts and entertainment field.

I speak regularly to organizations and institutions on topics ranging from “Disability and the Conventions of Theatre” to “Disability and the Holocaust”. I also conduct faculty seminars on disability studies at colleges and universities. On this website you can find a calendar of speaking engagements, a full description of these activities, as well as contact information for inquiries and bookings.

My Body Politic: An Illustrated History
I am currently booking a tour of a theatrical/multi-media adaptation of my memoir, a piece titled: My Body Politic: An Illustrated History. The work embeds a personal narrative of the lived experience of disability within its social and political context (Act One), and its artistic and cultural context (Act Two).