This edition: Disability Justice: Alice Sheppard & Jess Thom
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Episode Details
Original tape date: June 30, 2019. First aired: June 19, 2026.In this episode, a pair of outstanding and provocative artists expand our ideas about beauty, mobility and inclusion. Host Laura Flanders interviews the two — performance artists whose work illustrates how difference and neurodiversity make art and society richer and more interesting. Alice Sheppard is a wheelchair dancer and esteemed choreographer, and Jess Thom is a performer and comedian with Tourettes. In their conversations with Laura, they question the role of art in society as well as our attitudes towards disability and what is normal.
Guest List
Alice Sheppard Artistic Director, Kinetic Light
Jess Thom Performer, Comedian and Activist
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