EVENT LINK: https://springboardforthearts.org/event/arts-disability-and-radical-self-representation/

FEE: Free

VIRTUAL WORKSHOP
Arts, Disability and Radical Self-Representation

Zoom Meeting | Thursday, March 12, 2026 | 6:00 - 8:00 PM

In this panel, two neurodivergent authors published by Cow Tipping Press will join the organization’s founder to discuss storytelling and the arts as an avenue for advocacy and narrative-shifting representation. Panelists will delve into both the details of their process and the larger cultural shifts that come from the meaningful inclusion and collaboration with people with intellectual/developmental disabilities in books, classrooms, arts spaces, workplaces, and beyond.

Panelist: Ethan Bussiere
Bio: Ethan Bussiere loves to write fantasy short stories. He also likes to write poems and lyrics. He feels his writing comes from his vast imagination. He can’t keep his mind quiet, so why not write it?

Panelist: Davida Kilgore
Bio: Davida Kilgore has been writing since she was 6 years old. She’s been publishing for the past 37 years. Writing is who she is as well as what she does. Writing has saved her life.

Moderator: Bryan Boyce
Bio: Bryan Boyce is the Founder and Executive Director of Cow Tipping Press. He grew up in Waseca, Minnesota and graduated from Grinnell College before teaching high school English in Lesotho and the Rosebud Lakota Reservation and serving as Assistant Director of Breakthrough San Juan Capistrano, which he led to nationally recognized student gains. As the sibling of a brother with developmental disabilities, Bryan knows firsthand the value and richness of exchange across neurological difference. He seeks to give others this opportunity—an alternative to presuming deficit and pity—through the often inventive, radically self-representative writing of Cow Tipping authors.