Disability Identity and Culture

Digging deep into the complexities of lived disability experience provides insight into the stories Hollywood has yet to tap. 
Disability culture artists can offer alternatives to tired stereotypes.

Why Create Autobiographical Work with Tekki Lomnicki

Barriers to casting, theater, humor

Autistic Identity with TJ Gordon

Connecting to autistic community, Autistic Self-Advocacy Network

The Importance of Disability Experience with Susan Nussbaum

Importance of disability experiences, Me Before You, advocating suicide

Going Deeper in Your Work with Tekki Lomnicki

Humor, Pain, and Personal Stories

Neurodiversity with TJ Gordon

Explaining neurodiversity and critiquing ‘normal brains’

Disability and Interdependence with Mike Ervin

Challenging independence, kill and cure narratives, ‘getting along

Disability and Humor with Mike Ervin

Disabled storytellers, Speechless, softening stories for mainstream, fearless storytelling 

Including Disabled Characters in Storytelling with Tsehaye Hébert

Race, gender, and disability on stage, writing from experience