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Theriault shares personal stories about creating a character, performing across different audiences, and entering stand-up, while framing disability activism as a powerful, ongoing civil rights movement. The talk links historical acts of protest to present-day fear and solidarity, returning to themes of comfort zones, role-finding, and staying committed to living and loving.","Comedian Jade Theriault at the Accessible Futures Conference, June 2025  \n[00:00:00.05] -Jade Theriault  \nThis morning. I was listening into the various breakouts. There's a lot of great discussion happening.  \n[00:00:04.28] -Interviewer  \nBut right now, we're going to shift gears and just enjoy ourselves a little and recharge. Our lunchtime guest is here to bring both laughter and insight. Jade Theriault is a brilliant interdisciplinary artist and comedian whose work explores disability, embodiment, and identity with biting humor and deep intelligence. Their performances defy expectation and invite us to think and laugh differently. Please welcome Jane Theriault.  \n[00:00:39.27] -Jade Theriault  \nOh, wow. Oh, it feels so good to be up here. I finally get to hold my head with my robot arm in a room full of people I don't have to mask in front of. I could just be disabled. It's great. It's true, Iam a comedian, and I could tell jokes today, or I just very coincidentally prepared a 10-page, slightly serious, slightly humorous speech. So by a show a hand and cheers. Let's do this. Jokes. Jokes. Or 10-page speech that I've been working on for a really long time, and I've been practicing every day for the last three weeks. You guys don't have to hear it if you don't want to. We'll do it again. Jokes and speech. Thank you. Damn it. I would love some volume on this mic, but maybe that's fine. Okay, here we go. I am so happy and grateful to To be around all of you today. This is definitely a beautiful lesson in comfort zone. I've spent the last 10 years of my life just fully immersed in the art scene. I've spent my days just building this character and posting content or just covered in fake blood on some weird exploitation film shoot.  \n[00:02:26.23] -Jade Theriault  \nIn the evenings, I'd set him up and knock them down, alternating between crowds of 100 people in the richest parts of San Francisco or a crowd of two in a Soma dive bar that smells like urine. See, those are my favorite because that's when I could really look into someone else's eyes and just find a new meaning there. I am a stand-up comic, but I'm not going to make the sit-down comic joke. The Abel's already did that for me. They can have it. I got into stand-up comedy in  \nhigh school because I wanted to pick up Hot Babes. I found out that the demand to hear about my sex life was high and the supply was me. That was good. I I went to college trying to find theart in myself and just enjoying a freedom that my disabled elders might say that my age group takes for granted. If you listen to this speech without looking at me talking about just trolling the streets of SF alone at 23, smothered in clown face, you might be surprised at who's talking. But you see, I know my audience because we're not surprised because we worked for this.  \n[00:04:09.29] -Jade Theriault  \nWe came from these roots. We were literally rooted in our beds, rooted in our homes, just installed in iron lungs horizontally without even the freedom to get off the sidewalk, we fought. Then, I have to tell this story, even though we all know this story. Just three years before I was born, disabled activists dragged their tired, rooted bodies up the 83 steps of the HUD building to host the longest sit-in of a federal building in US history. We We have to brag about that everytime because it is so, so cool. 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