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Devon Healey is an Assistant Professor of Disability Studies at OISE/U of T. Her work is grounded in her experience as a blind woman guided by a desire to show how blindness specifically and disability more broadly can be understood as offering an alternate form of perception and is thus, a valuable and creative way of experiencing and knowing the world. She is the author of, Dramatizing Blindness: Disability Studies as Critical Creative Narrative(Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). Devon is an award-winning actor and the co-founder of, Peripheral Theatre. Her new play, Rainbow on Mars will premier in Toronto, August 2025 co-produced by Outside the March theatre company and the National Ballet of Canada. Her publications include “Eye Contact and the Performative Touch of Blindness” in Performance Research (2022); “The Accessibility of the language of blindness and its rapport with sight: Immersive descriptive audio and Rainbow on Mars’ in PUBLIC: Art, culture, ideas (2022).