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“On Your Feet!”: Addressing Ableism in Theatre of the Oppressed Facilitation

This article cautions that while Theatre of the Oppressed workshops work toward inclusivity and equity, workshop facilitators can easily fall into assuming participants' physical abilities, with the potential to lead to exclusion and inequity. The author therefore provides resources to maintain and continuously improve equity in facilitation by highlighting disability scholarship and Universal Design pedagogy to include and honor the diversity of bodies in workshops. 

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Theatre of the Oppressed

Theatre of the Oppressed is a form of theatre first created by Brazilian theatre practitioner Augusto Boal. It requires audience participation (audience members are referred to as "spect-actors") and its goal is to interrogate and call attention to oppressive power structures. 

This collection includes links to a number of resources that provide various theatrical activities inspired by the Theatre of the Oppressed in addition to guidance on how to incorporate the activities into a curriculum. 

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