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The Scholar and Feminist 2011: Simi Linton

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Simi Linton delivers opening remarks to the Heidi Latsky Dance Company’s Performance of The GIMP Project at The Scholar and Feminist Conference 2011, “Movements: Politics, Performance, and Disability.” Simi is Co-Director/Producer of the forthcoming documentary Invitation to Dance, based on her memoir My Body Politic. She is the author of Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity, and numerous articles on disability. Linton was on the faculty at CUNY for 14 years, leaving in 1998 to develop her consultancy to filmmakers, artists and cultural institutions working to shape the presentation of disability in the arts and to increase the representation of works by disabled artists. She describes dance as “the place where disability rights, disability culture and disability studies come together.” She is introduced by Janet Jakobsen in this podcast.

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