“Contributions from disabled women are often overlooked within foreign policy and international relations. Disability is perhaps the largest global minority (15% of the world's population according to a 2011 WHO/World Bank Report) and the most universal, as it is available to all as congenital, acquired, temporary, and permanent. I wanted to interview established (Judith Heumann, Charlotte V. McClain-Nhlapo, Susan Sygall) and emerging (Karine Grigoryan, Anna Landre, and Ekaete Umoh) disabled female leaders across a range of disabilities, countries, and experiences to ask them about their career motivations and advice.”

“Molly Joyce talks to New York-based interdisciplinary artist Jerron Herman about disability, dance and his ongoing journey into making work through the combination of dance, text, and visual storytelling.”

“Canadian pianist, composer, and scholar Stefan Sunandan Honisch provides singular perspectives on the complexities and possibilities for disabled musicians today. Molly Joyce talks to him about his research into the legacy left by Helen Keller.”

“In the first of a series of articles, contemporary classical music composer and performer Molly Joyce writes about disability as a creative source, given a US slant to the discourse.”

“Composer and performer Molly Joyce’s music is primarily concerned with disability as a creative source. Her works have been commissioned and performed by ensembles including the New World, New York Youth, Pittsburgh, and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestras, and the New Juilliard, Decoda, and Contemporaneous ensembles. She talks to DAO about barriers and her aim to redefine the boundaries of contemporary classical music.”

Personal essay on embracing physical impairment through music