Telling It Our Way
Performance
Brandon and Leah both discuss what it means to find confidence through performance. Brandon shares his experience becoming the "music man" in his local dance troop and Leah talks about challenging negative stereotypes about disabled people through a recent theatre performance.
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Meet Your Host Ally Day
Ally Day is Associate Professor of Disability Studies at the University of Toledo and author of several articles and book chapters, as well as the book The Politicial Economy of Stigma: HIV, Memoir, Medicine and Crip Positionalities. She is also co-producer for the film series HIV in the Rust Belt: The Story of David's House Compassion, directed by Holly Hey.
Meet Your Host Becca Monteleone
Becca Monteleone is Assistant Professor of Disability Studies at the University of Toledo and author of several articles and book chapters, co-editor of the book Disability and Social Justice in Kenya: Scholars, Policymakers, and Activists in Conversation, and author of the forthcoming book Bodily Transgressions: Disability, Authority, and Medical Technology in the 21st Century. She has run storytelling workshops with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities across the country and is one of the founders of the Plain Truth Project, aimed at making news media more cognitively accessible.
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Voices Around Us® is supported in part by American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds allocated by the City of Toledo and the Lucas County Commissioners and administered by The Arts Commission.
