“Performing the Ethics of Disability”

5313 Bay Shore Road,Sarasota FL 34243

04 June, 2022

Description

Crafting personas and public performance is one way that persons with disabilities claim space and agency as culture and arts makers. What are the ethics of performing disability? Where do we find disability performance—not only in circus arts, but in visual arts, dance, theatrical performance? And what are the ethics of looking and of inviting or demanding the public’s gaze? Can't make it in person? Streaming Option Here Rosemarie Garland-Thomson is a disability justice and culture thought leader, bioethicist, teacher, and scholar of the humanities. Her 2016 editorial, “Becoming Disabled,” was the inaugural article in the ongoing weekly series in the New York Times about disability by people living with disabilities. Professor of English and bioethics at Emory University, she teaches disability studies, bioethics, American literature and culture, and feminist theory. Her work develops the field of critical disability studies in the health humanities to bring forward disability access, inclusion, and identity to a broad range of institutions and communities. She has written and edited many books, most pertinently the collection About Us: Essays from the New York Times about Disability by People with Disabilities and forthcoming, Embracing Our Humanity: A Bioethics of Disability and Health. Editor, About Us: Essays From the Disability Series of the New York Times This event is made possible by support from the Mellon Foundation.