as an artist and teacher working under the heading, The Performative Self: Performance (as) Medicine, i translate, transpose, reframe and transform physical, emotional and spiritual challenges extrapolated from my own situation. the disability march offers a heightened form of activism and participation in a similar way, in that i am not there but there, here but not, in body/out of body, present in two places and grateful for it.  in this way, despite my limits of locomotion, i am ‘abled’ to perform activism and citizenship, to be counted, and to conceptualize it as performance art as well!