Artwork and Video by Dominique Thiébaut A moving epileptic gesture drawing of a woman having a tonic clonic seizure. The lines are brown and fill in with shadings of brown, yellows, oranges, and black. She lays on her back with her hand over her face and an elbow jutting out. She is drawn and erased.

Through a multimedia performance piece, Maria Susan Guarino aims to create an honest, self-narrated space of her experience as an epileptic woman without filter, enabled by Sylvia Plath’s novel The Bell Jar (1963). Aiming to produce a transparent and feminist representation of a disabled woman, Maria’s hope is that this video will encourage spectators to question the stigmatization of seizures and disability. This piece was shown as part of a show called “ElseSpaces” at The Anchor House of Artists, and then published in Disability Studies Quarterly.