My Body is a Resource I Am Willing to Expend

About Katie (Tom) Walters

Katie is an autistic and physically disabled writer who creates performance poetry and interdisciplinary poetic storytelling for theatre. They write complicated metaphors about serious things like sickness loss and love. Their writing is highly political with a queercrip and cripplepunk ethos aiming to tell challenging and subversive stories that destabilise the nondisabled norm. In 2014 Katie was a winner of the SLAMbassadors youth slam and they've stuck to the stage ever since. They have performed at festivals including Greenbelt and Shambala and worked on commissions for Homotopia and Theatre Absolute. In 2019 they co-founded the disability arts organisation Radical Body where they produce radical new performances by and for disabled people.