Posts tagged Disability
Expert of Your Body: Author on Claiming Agency For Yourself, Your Work and Your Life
Expert of Your Body: Author on Claiming Agency For Yourself, Your Work and Your Life

Call someone a genius and it’s a lofty compliment. But Sarah Ruhl, prolific playwright, poet and author, is officially a genius, as a recipient of the MacArthur Genius Award, as well as two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

The author of Smile: The Story of A Face, was on stage at the Chicago Humanities Festival recently, speaking with her friend and colleague, Jessica Thebus, artist and Director of the Northwestern University MFA Program.

They discussed the gendered agency and ownership of your own body as a woman, as a human, and as someone who loses control of its ability to move and to respond as intended in the workplace and in the world.

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Changing the Workplace, Inspirational Role Models, Life tools and tips, Women Career SuccessMichele WeldonDisability, Workplace Culture, Body ImageComment
Frida Kahlo and Her: Author Shares A High Profile Life of Invisible Disability
Frida Kahlo and Her: Author Shares A High Profile Life of Invisible Disability

Being the poster child for a movement or a cause is usually a metaphor, meaning that you embody the mission of an organization. For award-winning author, educator and disabilities justice advocate Emily Rapp Black, it was literally who she was.

In 1980, at six years old Black was chosen as the poster child for the March of Dimes, because a congenital birth defect resulted in her left leg being amputated. Her latest book, the critically acclaimed, Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg, explores Black’s ideological connection with the iconic Mexican artist who suffered from polio as a child, and later a leg amputation, using a prosthetic limb.

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Women Career Success, Inspirational Role Models, Changing the Workplace, Career successMichele WeldonDisability, Women Writers, Activism, ArtComment
Creating A Workplace for Disability-Led Fairness + Inclusion = Good Business
Creating A Workplace for Disability-Led Fairness + Inclusion = Good Business

Ali Stroker was the first actor to use a wheelchair who won as featured actress in a musical at the recent Tony Awards, and she also won hearts and minds for her acceptance speech, not just her performance in “Oklahoma!”

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Changing the Workplace, Leadership tools and tips, Leadership/Organizational, Movement BuildingMichele Weldonbusiness, Change, Disability, equality, inclusion, women in the workplaceComment