She is the subject of the documentary filmInvitation to Dance, which she and Christian von Tippelskirch directed and produced. Her writings include Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity, My Body Politic, andthe essay “Cultural Territories of Disability” in Disability. Simi Linton is an author, filmmaker, and arts consultant. Snyder's Gender & Disability class in the Women's Studies Program at the George Washington University Please come join us on Thursday if you're in the DC area for a night of insight, stimulating conversation, and - of course - dance: Note this is a collaborative effort between the English department and Sharon L. MATCH and GWU's Crip/Queer Studies is extremely excited for Simi Linton's upcoming talk this week to finish off a great semester of disability studies presentations. As Linton brought the audience into the conversation on disability culture, she spurred competition between classes in order to get a diversity of vantage points and to push the attending classes to see crip cultural authority as a good worth fighting to develop.
In the end, she decided to leave the ivory tower of teaching, "to bring disability into the public" and use the arts to reorient societal orientations, "the cultural authority of disability." Disability justice requires mass participation in order to transform the physical and societal environments that disable those with non-normative embodiments. As a discerning period, Linton decided that working in the academy would put too many limitations on her time, work, and conversations. Indeed, the event was a special treat for students who were able to receive a clarification and continuation of thoughts they had been stewing on all semester.Īt the start of her talk, Linton explained how her first book came out of a dinner at a restaurant with the desire to portray disability as an active mode of embodying the self and society rather than a passive state.
Professor David Mitchell introduced Linton and explained that her work has already been an influential part of his course which was now in its final weeks. Over the hour and a half, she examined the history and current contexts of disability in the public, the role of disability arts in democracy, and engaged students with a screening of some of her films that illustrate the lived affects art has on people with a diversity of embodiments. Her remarks, which she entitled, "Cultural Territories of Disability," took on the form of a seminar style dialog with the audience. On Dec 3rd, Simi Linton spoke to a collection of several classes, as well as faculty and students in GWU's Crip/Queer Studies contingent.
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