This page contains resources about Simi Linton for media professionals:

Speaking topics Simi Linton is available to the media to speak about.
Media coverage featuring or quoting Simi Linton
Recent publications by Simi Linton
Press kit 
Recent speaking engagements

Topics

What follows is a sample of the kinds of current and emerging issues that Simi Linton is available to discuss with media professionals.

Disability and the arts and entertainment professions
Disabled Iraqi vets
Disability rights movement - the other civil rights movement
Advances and remaining obstacles

Disability and the arts and entertainment professions
Available to the press for commentary on themes, characterizations, casting decisions and representations of disabled people on stage and screen. She has written about the clichés and stereotypes often seen in theatre and film, pointing out how we can achieve greater accuracy and authenticity in representing disabled people and ideas about disability.
Simi Linton has personal and professional relationships with numerous disabled artists – women and men who use their unique configuration of body, voice and mind in their artistic work. She can help reporters identify key figures to interview, and can suggest current initiatives and projects worth writing about.