Our World Is, Indeed, a Stage

Our office is nothing if not performative. We have one DC-Area poet on staff, an artist, an athlete, and a proud mother of an actor (who sometimes improvises as an end-of-the-semester exam proctor). Therefore, we consider ourselves quite close to a variety of DC performance communities.
Below is an excerpt of Molly Smith's recent article for Theater Washington. In the full article, Smith contends that theater has become even more essential to our world now that so many of us spend our professional and personal lives online. The article is great. So you should click on that link.

As the world becomes noisier, the theater becomes even more essential as it serves as a place for reflection. In the United States of America, arguably the most culturally and racially diverse country in the world, we have, as Mark Twain put it a "loud, raucous, cacophony of voices." Theater is how we make meaning in all the noise, how we make sense of all the voices.

got research?

Conducting research is not always easy,

but getting help with research always is.

Research Skills Workshop

Tuesday, October 23--6:00-7:00 pm

Disability Support Services--Rome 102

Presented by Tolonda Henderson of Gelman Library 

and the DSS Academic Skills Assistance team

Topics to be covered:

database navigation

source evaluations

& organizing your research

Have a writing assignment that involves research?

Bring it with you!

Free pizza will be provided

Please RSVP to dsssocial@yahoo.com by 10/22

Sharing "This Is What Disability Looks Like"

All, here's a short plug for the excellent campaign "This Is What Disability Looks Like" by Bethany Stevens. An extensive interview with Bethany is available at Bitch Media. Below is an excerpt from that interview:

Positive representations of PWDs (People with disabilities) are hard to come by. Pitiful, gloomy loners or the excessively plucky supercrip 'overcoming' a disability to inspire nondisabled counterparts are de rigueur in the media’s unrealistic portrayals of the disability experience. Attempting to find reasonably authentic TV/film characters with disabilities is a challenging and alienating task—one that often leaves [us] staring at [our] screens, exasperated, wondering, 'Why doesn’t anyone ever look/act like [us]?!'

This Is What Disability Looks Like on Facebook