Funny and Disabled: An Evening of Comedy and Conversation

More than one in four adults in the U.S. has a disability. And yet: Do you know how to be a true ally to someone, maybe yourself, with a disability? Have you felt awkward around people with disability and not known what to say and do? Have you wanted to tell your friend how you understand yourself as a disabled person, but not known how to tell your story? Have you wished that they'd see you and not just your disability? Fret not! Here comes Nina G., the stuttering standup comic and co-producer of the national touring company "The Comedians with Disabilities Act" to lighten up a heavy subject! Through humor and comedy, she will show us what it means to "laugh at disability" from an insider perspective. Nina is the author of "Stutterer Interrupted: The Comedian Who Almost Didn’t Happen." Besides being a standup comic, she has a doctorate in psychology and will help us to understand what it's like to have a disability, invisible or not. From that, we'll learn how best to be an ally to someone with a disability, including being an ally to ourselves. We'll practice our new skills, have a laugh-filled evening, and hopefully return home a little lighter, and a lot more enlightened. There will be an opportunity an hour before and an hour after the event for attendees, especially those with disabilities, to meet one another and Nina.