It's Not About Me (2022)
By Kayleigh Stack
This is a live in-person solo monologue of a personal narrative of a woman—myself—sharing an experience of what it means to be disabled, walking around with an “invisible bruise”. An experience I claim has very little say on anyone else’s disability, even with those who might have the same condition. I discuss my sharing on disability as a form of resistance to all the trained and credentialed experts telling the story of others whose bodies, lives, or cultures they might study but have no direct embodied experience with, merging the divide between “studied” and “lived”.NOTE: This exhibit opens Friday, April 29th at 5pm Eastern.
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Saturday, April 30, noonAfter seven years of healing her brain and body—involving thousands of dollars, dozens of conventional and alternative modalities, and the even more demanding work of turning inward to heal—she will be graduating with her second Masters degree from Columbia University in Oral History. Believing in the transformative power of storytelling—as it was through others sharing their journeys that she was able to piece together what healing would look like for her specific condition—she has used her graduate school thesis to pay in forward and share her narrative. This work is in hopes that her story might be helpful for someone else to hear and learn from, like the solace that many others have provided her in their telling.
This is both an online and in-person event. Wearing a mask is optional at the live exhibition. Please bring water and your receptivity.
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