Language and Power on the Rhetorical Stage

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Liz DeBetta

Liz DeBetta is a scholar-artist-activist whose work is grounded in creativity and social justice with an emphasis on creating cultural change. She is an award-winning solo performer whose focus is on deconstructing dominant narratives that oppress and dehumanize women and adoptees. Her research and teaching interests include writing for healing and social change, gender, sexuality, reproductive justice/injustice in the culture of adoption and cisheteropatriarchy through the use of critical autoethnography and performance studies. Her book Adult Adoptees and Writing to Heal is available from Brill Publishers.