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Lezlie Frye is a performance artist, activist, poet and scholar. She has performed at a wide range of artistic and cultural events, including festivals, workshops, and conferences. Frye aims to address intersecting forms of oppression and to locate critical resistance in the foxy bodies of cripples everywhere. She utilizes performance modes that fuse movement to storytelling and spoken word. Frye is currently a doctoral student in the American Studies Program, department of Social and Cultural Analysis, at New York University. Her academic work explores critical connections between dis/ability, race, sexuality, gender, and nation, with particular interest in art, aesthetics, and the politics of life and death.