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Shiller's "Disability Drag" Concept Changes Disability Stereotypes

You Never Know: A Memoir, is about Romy Shiller, a Canadian writer and critic, was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2003... In the past six years, she has done much to confound doctors' expectations.

Disability Drag

Having studied and worked in performance art of various kinds before her disability, Shiller is inclined to see similarities between her experience and the sort of pop culture entertainment that she wrote about for her doctoral thesis in drama. Performers in drag shows project an image that subverts "societal norms," says Shiller. A physical disability projects an image, too, and it's often one that society interprets in a negative light.

"Disability drag" is Shiller's phrase for the way courageous people with disabilities can make society rethink its ideas about body image, identity, and personal growth. "Cyborg drag" is her term for living with a permanent shunt to drain excess fluid from her brain. She is part human, part machine, she says, and this gives her another rare insight into conventional ideas about what it means to be human...

My doctoral thesis entitled "A critical exploration of cross-dressing and drag in gender performance and camp in contemporary North American drama and film" is available

https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/13142

I'm referred to in:   A CLASS ACT: Ryan Landry and the Politics of Booger Drag by Karen C. Krahulik Copyright 2008 by Duke University Princeton

Alumnotes McGill Uiversity
http://www.mcgill.ca/news/2008/fall/alumnotes/

ALUMNI QUARTERLY - fall 2008

ROMY SHILLER, BA'88, was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2003 and lapsed into a post-surgery coma that lasted five months. Afterwards, she was stricken with akinetic mutism-a partial paralysis that made it very difficult to move or talk. Romy's new book, You Never Know: A Memoir (Trafford Publishing), features her musings on illness, rehab, pop culture, quantum physics, dreams and psychic phenomena. The book is available at Amazon.ca.

Great gifts idea: http://www.wvi.org/wvi/wviweb.nsf

My book 'You Never Know: A Memoir'and story are at CBC News Sunday

Bibliography of Theatre History in Canada

Author: Shiller, Romy
Title: Drag King invasion: taking back the throne
CTR, Volume: 86
Pages: 24-28
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Greater Toronto Drag King Society / / Performance Art 

article in:   Camp: Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject which, as the promo states, addresses the multilayered issue of camp, whose inexhaustible breadth of reference and theoretical relevance to the issues taken up by academic research in recent years...

http://books.google.ca/books?id=4QKtjdIa7AwC&pg=PA507&lpg=PA507&dq=romy+shiller&source=web&ots=MTePfQnWCe&sig=uSrBhMVS3Yn5z-nFd3YjkEC1ZhE&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result

One of my favorite magazines is BUST Magazine

http://www.bust.com/

Another is DISCOVER Magazine

http://discovermagazine.com/

My favorite band is Coldplay  http://www.coldplay.com/index.php

Favorite nail polish colours are "We'll Always Have Paris"  (dark red) and "Lincoln Park After Dark" (dark purple)  by OPI http://www.opi.com/

Favorite TV show: True Blood