Crip News v.100
We're in the TRIPLE DIGITS! Thanks, thanks, thanks for being here.
taking a second here to reflect on the one hundredth issue of this project…
i’m almost always physically alone when i gaze into this screen to write to you, but of course you’re here with me before this gets to you. i think that’s what i mean when i say “thanks for being here” every week.
i mean: “thanks for helping me sustain a weekly and useful practice.”
i mean: “thanks for helping me understand that we can time-shift into togetherness around the brilliance and possibility that disability offers.”
you are 2,473 readers across 46 U.S. states and 52 countries. you are precious mentors, dear friends, and total strangers. collectively, you’ve viewed crip news roughly 238,286 times (about 89% of that through email opens). what!
you are also the people whose creative processes, organizing, dreams, and artistry form the content of each issue. thank you for teaching me that there is always good news about disability arts, culture, and politics.
in two weeks’ time, we’ll reach another big milestone for this project: the two year anniversary. we’re in our celebration era, y’all!
so: thanks for being here.
-kevin
NEWS
New Works
Experiments in Art, Access and Technology, or E.A.A.T., opens this week at the Beall Center for Art + Technology at UC Irvine and online. The show “chronicles the emergence of access as an animating principle of art, science, and technology,” featuring work by artists Meesh Fradkin, Carmen Papalia, Josephine Sales, Andy Slater, and Olivia Ting developed in the Leonardo CripTech Incubator. The show is curated by Vanessa Chang and Lindsey D. Felt. The Program Curator is Claudia Alick. Up through Jan. 13, 2024.
Dutch theatre company Speels Collectief premieres their tour of Lay Down and Lift Me Up this week, in addition to their tour of Usually I’m On Top. The performance explores intimacy and relationships, “dinners-for-three, monogamy and self-marriage to polyamory for better or for worse.”
“A Protactile Version of ‘Tintern Abbey’” by Deaf-Blind writer and Protactile educator John Lee Clark was published in a recent issue of The New Yorker.
In Orion Magazine, Petra Kuppers interviews Marina ‘Heron’ Tsaplina about her long-term creative environmental project Soils and Spirit that will premiere in NYC in the fall of 2026.
Are You A Woman in Authority? is a group show presented by Broken Grey Wires and Phoenix Art Space, communicating “the powerful rhetoric behind key social issues: mental illness, class struggles, race, queerness and feminist discourse, and how these intersect.” Featuring works by Janine Antoni, Bobby Baker, Lizz Brady, kevanté ac cash, Lynn Hershman Leeson , Permindar Kaur, Sarah Lucas, Sarah Maple, Tracey Moffatt, Jade Montserrat, Zanele Muholi, Anya Paintsil, Charlotte Prodger, Martha Rosler, and Carol Sommer. On view in Brighton, UK through Nov. 19.
For The Body, Gabrielle Sierra profiles Hip-Hop diplomat and HIV activist Toni Blackman.
Art Matters Foundation announced the cohort of 2023 Artist2Artist Fellows with several disabled artists, including Alex Dolores Salerno, Bl3ssing Oshun Ra, Johanna Hedva, Kevin Quiles Bonilla, and NEVE.
The Axis Project took over Rockefeller Center’s Roller Boogie Palace recently for their sold-out RollOut Jam with a studded lineup of disabled artists.
Free Covid Tests Are Back in the U.S.
Starting today, the federal government will send up to four COVID-19 rapid tests per household to anyone who requests them. Head to COVIDtests.gov.
CALLS
The Disabled & Deaf Trans People’s Survey (DTPS) “aims to empower disabled and Deaf trans people by gathering and sharing knowledge about our needs, experiences, and priorities, particularly centering Black people and people of color.” Take the survey today!
PeoplesHub is raising $20K in 20 days to support the Undoing Internalized Ableism Cohorts. Donate now.
Justice in Aging is accepting applications for Summer 2024 Law Fellowships. More here.
The Justice Committee is hiring a Director of Organizing to oversee the organizing to end police violence in NYC. More here.
The Whitney Museum of American Art is hiring an Associate Manager of Access Programs and Initiatives. More here.
The American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) is launching the Fannie Lou Hamer Leadership Program “dedicated and designed for young black disabled advocates who are committed to boosting black voter registration and civic engagement across their communities.” The deadline to apply is tonight, Sept. 25 at 11:59pm ET. More here.
EVENTS
Drafting an Access Statement with Finnegan Shannon
Tuesday, Sept. 26, 7 - 9pm ET, in-person at Pioneer Works (Brooklyn)
Drafting access statements is an important practice for anyone involved planning or hosting gatherings (concerts, meetings, artist talks, dinner parties, etc). Sharing what access provisions are available and not available is key for disabled attendees planning their participation. Join Visual Arts Resident Finnegan Shannon as we draft access statements to deepen our thinking about access, start conversations with collaborators, and plant seeds for future access.
An Introduction to Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety with Cara Page and Erica Woodland
Thursday, Sept. 28, 5 - 6:15pm ET, on Zoom
Join the Georgetown University Disability Studies Program for a virtual conversation with Black Queer Feminist authors Cara Page and Erica Woodland about their book, Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety!
CounterBalance Performances
Saturday, Sept. 30, 7pm CT and Sunday, Oct. 1, 3pm ET, in-person at Hoover-Leppen Theatre, Center on Halsted (Chicago) and virtual viewing in late October
CounterBalance showcases the power and unique artistry of physically-integrated and inclusive dance. This year's performance features choreography by Connor Cornelius, Julia Cox, Sarah Cullen Fuller, Anita Kenney, Ginger Lane, Kris Lenzo, Sarah Najera, Meredith Aleigha Wells, and Robby Williams. Also included in the program are two short dance films: From the Blood and A Memory of Joy.
Quilting From Bed: a beginner's hand-quilting workshop
4 week course, Wednesdays, Sept. 27 - Oct. 18, 1:30pm, on Zoom
Participants will be taught each stage of the hand-quilting process over four weeks, sewing their own 10cm square quilted coaster as they go. The project is designed to be completed from your bed or sofa, using only hand tools. Participants are encouraged to take their time, and work begun during the video-calls is not expected to be finished by the end of the session. The project can be worked on as-and-when participants are able in the week between each session. This course is designed to be approachable for beginners, but there will be advanced techniques taught that may even be new to established quilters - including a new way of backing quilts and rare heritage quilting stitches. By the end of the four week course, participants should have completed their first quilting project, and will be ready to scale-up their new skills to larger projects. Quilting From Bed has been adapted from Sukie's new book, Hand-Quilting, which all participants will receive a free digital copy of. The book will be used as a reference material in the course.
Mental Health and Disability Justice Research Symposium
Tuesday, Sept. 26, 3 - 4pm ET, on Zoom
Join the Georgetown University Disability Studies Program to hear the Learning-in-Practice Fellows share their innovative research on centering the perspectives of mentally disabled people in international policy, anti-discrimination law, and care.
I'm just so proud of you and this incredible resource and the community you have made around it! Love love love!
wow, 100 issues!!! thank you so much for doing all of this work - i really appreciate it, especially because much of the info in these is stuff i never would have known about otherwise