I was delighted and honoured recently to contribute a Friday Essay to The Conversation

“.….a growing number of artists, including myself, are challenging the idea that women with dwarfism cannot be beautiful thanks to their “disability”. In fact, I argue that rather than seeing disability as something inherent to a person we should see it as a product of social and physical environments.” 

Listen to the audio here: 

Read also Debra’s Essay in The Daily Bulletin at The Conversation

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CONTRIBUTIONS

Chapter: Little Big Woman: Condescension – Sculpting the Oppositional Gaze

Dwarfism Arts and Advocacy by Erin Pritchard

Chapter: Missing in Action

The Routledge Handbook of Disability and Sexuality