really was what we did was is that as most of you know i work for the sitting in a versity of new york does the day job and we put together a fashion show for our one of the major installations at york college this was not a student show are defined disabilities redefined absolutely and as you say the artwork was amazing it really was very good i like an artist as you are too and we speak about that in our interview there so  but as you see we have a special show in the art gallery your college city university of new york and we have a very very exclusive exhibition going on it is entitled art defying disabilities redefined and what we have done is we have put together a collection of the finest art students from the city university of new york who just happened to be disabled and  will see in this footage they are perhaps some of the most talented artist in new york today o i feel like there's lots of vibrant and truly expressive of ours in the show for example this piece every shape has its own energy its own color yes this is something that  york should promote this is something that will get these artists some exposure and it will also give the artist a boost in terms of continuing to make their work continuing to engage  sure if it actually showed it on any of that footage but for three of the artists we did interviews and one of which actually came here for her interview and what we want to do is show the footage that we had on the video camera they are the woman it's so important that her work be seen especially in the context like this about thinking about rethinking with disability is because people who are disabled aren't just that they're zillion other characteristics to themselves and in gender studies we think about this constantly you're not just one gender or another or in fact of the spectrum of gender but we also think about you know when we think about sylvia rivera for instance that she was a woman of color she was homeless she had a favorite color and favorite food people are people and something that we lose sometimes in academic context or for that matter in our where we w ant to just consign conversation to you know how the brushstrokes are executed but rather than thinking about passion i had a professor ones who said that her work was love and that she was privileged that work in love when hand in hand and this woman does the same thing you know her life is in her work her work is in her life and in the classroom and in the art studio they all go together even though it would be so easy to say that they don't when she brings her art to class she illuminates her other students and when they bring their different perspectives whether it's somebody who's a poly siamese or taking a gender class or a gender studies major who is also doing activist work people bring very different shadings but they all share their experiences as individuals this is human beings and gender studies is largely predicated on the idea of  intersectionality right there where we're many different characteristics but in that regional iteration but also thinking about our vulnerability intersectionality was not just about our same mrs but also the places in which we were vulnerable and something she and i talked about quite a bit is this way in which knowing where our vulnerabilities are and where each other's vulnerabilities are is an opportunity for us to lift each other up rather than trying to create a utopia where everybody is the same or equal what's create a menagerie where we are all ourselves but that we have picked each other up so that maybe sylvia rivera was less hungry for instance or some of your classmates who had never thought about what angels could be in the context of a theory of gender and sexuality were illuminated by that kind of work it's any time we start bridging the gap like this exhibits going to do you were doing the work that needs to be done to really appreciate who we are as human beings again either way another amazing talent i am so proud of the city university of new york for in its art department in its appreciation for theater and art she is also a very very talented young woman she is twenty seven years old she lives in british know in greater vancouver british columbia canada and she actually calls herself the mouth painter as you'll see some of this work as is amazing yes isn't it beautiful she is amazingly talented she has a very very positive attitude as she states my life has been full of challenges growing up with  neuromuscular disability but i have never let that stop me from doing what i want to do including creative art i have lost many abilities over the years but i will always find a new way to do what i love such as it really is it really is because on the one hand you have hollywood which is a business and they want to make make the most of what they can make with it would talented actors whether able to disabled on the other hand you have the disabled community which i'm a huge supporter for and given my life to advance that want to stand up and say but wait a minute you know we can bring so much to this role which is absolutely true on the other hand you you have the eighty a american with disabilities you know jumping in and stating you know on the other hand you have scholars who again in defense of hollywood who want then to turn around and say you know no it is appropriate but then again a lot of scholars have never been on a movie set they don't know what it's all about on the other hand you have again disabled actors who want to say thank you scholars but you know what we can actually take care of ourselves because we've been on the movie cell let us speak you know so it actually goes inside about actually read a few articles where there was an inside  double lung transplant recipient flores is a friend of the late christina grimmie and the music of the former the voice and the music of the former the voice contestant will be featured throughout the show i love this we will as discussed post a link but i really believe reality show is the way to go i think this i think it's going to be the first major jump from hollywood to realize the talent that is they are absolutely yes absolutely yes good luck to everyone and again hollywood keep opening those doors and hopefully we'll make it there you know one of these days i think we will  we were lucky enough to get an interview and tomorrow you interviewed dr john andre john who was a strong supporter of the disabled community who is a strong supporter of the arts who actually works i think that quote a qualified actor who's also disabled should always get the disabled role that means that we have to educate and prepare disabled people to be actors and i think that's very important also i think that the an actor with a disability does not necessarily have to have the exact disability of the character that he or she is portraying just the fact that they're disabled they'll bring their life experience to their role it'll be more nuanced they'll have an understanding of what it was like to live with a disability so i think first we've got to get more people with disabilities interested in the theater and acting and then we've got to choose the disabled actor over the able bodied actor was all things being the same you know i think we do at the same way when courage other children to be an injury team and as educators at a very young age someone sees a spark in a child in kindergarten and gets that child in the school play and gets that child to take up a musical instrument or you know take up some acting classes and you encourage that child i think unfortunately what's happened with students with disabilities is oftentimes family friends in unfortunately educators say well that's not for you and even if they don't dress it directly they don't direct or push people with that talent towards the theater when this article says two percent of characters portrayed on television are disabled but other articles say as little as one percent and i think that it's probably even point five percent when you say this is not a t v show about a disability we just want to feature an actor it's a sitcom about this for friends and we're just going to take an actor who's disabled and place them in one of those roles and not make it a show about disability know because about the reality of the situation i think that if the choice is between portraying a disabled person on screen or in the theater and not having the production that features a disabled person i would say move ahead with the production even if you can't find a disabled person because that would be the ultimate injustice is to say we couldn't find somebody with a wheelchair for this role so we routed out of the script i think you know we need to start featuring disabled people and if we can't find someone with a disability then i think it's ok to use an able bodied not prepared for that role or disabled or not i think that we were minds here of what we always say my wife and i about our son who's on the spectrum which is we expect the exact same things of him that we would expect of any seven year old we just provide the support necessary for him to achieve it so i think that we expect disable the actors to put in the same time get the same education but in order for them to do that we have to provide the support educationally for what they need dr t was talking about theaters not being accessible  so we've got to make it so they can get to work they can get the education that they need and then at a certain point we will be able to demand the same qualifications of a disabled actor as we do  an able bodied actor but i think we are not doing our jobs to encourage and educate students in many fields disabled students and that's where it's got to start a parents can't give up on a child educators can't give up on a child and not discouraging them is not enough if a child has an interest whether it be music or theater or to go into a stem major then the parents have to mean thank you guys for watching i say it's been another great show this is our collection show we do this a few times throughout the seasons because we do it all the interviews and all and post those on our you tube channel but of course we also are seen on t right well we're not going anywhere