Crip News v.174
New works, new recordings, "disability justice," calls, and events.
NEWS
Long Covid Awareness
Today kicks off a week of actions and events leading to International Long Covid Awareness Day on Saturday, March 15. Many organizers and organizations are leading the efforts to recognize our ongoing health and economic crisis five years after the emergence of the novel coronavirus:
Organizer JD Davids recently published a rundown of his experience with new treatments and technologies to better understand sleeplessness, Long Covid, ME/CFS, mass cell activation syndrome, and immune deficiency.
The Sick Times Co-Founder Miles W. Griffis recently published a retrospective essay called “Half a decade of Long COVID.”
The Sick Times and Long COVID Justice have a resource sheet series with foundational information about navigating Long Covid.
The Covid-19 Longhauler Advocacy Project has a toolkit with daily actions and resources.
New Works
Contact M by Park McArthur opens this week at Museum Abteiberg (Mönchengladbach, Germany) and mumok (Vienna, Austria). On view until Sept. 28, the show presents works “guided by personal and social meanings of disability, delay, and dependency.”
Zines Forever! DIY Publications and Disability Justice, curated by Dr. Lea Cooper and Adam Rose, opens this week at the Wellcome Collection in London. The show, which draws from over 1,300 zines themed around health in the collection, will be on view until Sept. 14.
For Broad Street Review, writer Anndee Hochman writes about the work of blind journalist and filmmaker David Y. Block.
Holly Harmon from the Denver Art Museum recently published a reflection on Designing for Accessibility, a three-year initiative in collaboration with Ellen Bruss Design Studio.
Some recordings of recent events are now available:
Theater of War recently presented A REFUTATION featuring “dramatic readings by acclaimed actors of excerpts from two conflicting historic accounts of Philadelphia’s 1793 yellow fever epidemic as a catalyst for guided audience discussions about health inequities in America today, grounded in the perspectives of nurses, caregivers, and first responders.”
“What now, what next?” featuring Dr. Oni Blackstock, Dean Spade, Gabriel San Emeterio, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Emi Kane.
“Centering Community Voices to Improve Disability Research,” organized by Urban Institute, featuring Crystal Evans-Pradhan, Dulce Gonzalez, Katherine Hempstead, Myriam Hernandez-Jennings, Mia Ives-Rublee, Genevieve Kenney, Shereese Rhodes, Noel Sanders, and Kimá Joy Taylor.
“Crip Space/Time: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life” was a talk by Dr. Margaret Price at UC Berkeley’s Othering & Belonging Institute about Crip Spacetime, out now from Duke University Press. Price was also recently in conversation with Dr. Liz Bowen for Public Books.
“Disability Justice”
Every so often, I report on some of the corners of the internet where I notice this term is appearing. Here’s what’s new:
A bill recently introduced in the New York State Senate by Senator Julia Salazar would establish a “green accessible transition authority” that would “represent the public, drivers, autoworkers, environmental justice advocates, and disability justice advocates.”
Art in America’s Spring “Wellness” issue features Emily Watlington on climate and disability justice, as well as Emily McDermott on the work of Johanna Hedva, and more.
Distancing himself from Mark Zuckerberg, director and actor Jesse Eisenberg recently cited the work of his wife Anna Strout: “I think of it as somebody who is married to a woman who teaches disability justice in New York, and lives for her students are going to get a little harder this year.”
“Climate Justice, Disability Justice and Attitude is Everything: Disabled artists’ guidance and international case studies” by Sarah Pickthall is a new resource from and partly about the UK’s Attitude is Everything, in partnership with Julie’s Bicycle and A Greener Future.
In a recent article about the multi-million dollar gene therapy drug Zolgensma, physician Alyssa Burgart ends with this sentence: “Disability justice is about so much more than drugs - it’s about enhancing every person’s capacity to live a meaningful life.”
CALLS
The Transgender Law Center is hiring a National Organizer for the Disability Project.
The American Association of People with Disabilities is hiring for several positions in Accessible Democracy, Communications, and Programs.
The Disabled Ravers Network is seeking disabled, neurodivergent and or Deaf individuals involved in the rave space for a database that will provide an opportunity for bookers, promoters and similar to find artists.
The Disabled Democracy Project from the Young Democrats Disability Caucus is seeking ideas from disabled folks ages 16 - 36 focused on disability, civic engagement, democracy, or organizing to support with resources, skill-building, mentorship, funding, and more.
EVENTS
Hard Femme Poetics in a Time of Genocide and Yet Survival
4 Tuesday nights 7-9 PM ET March 11, 18, 25, April 1, 2025 with time to write in between
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha will lead a four-week writing/reading class. Are you fem(me) and writing in genocidal yet resistant times? Is your writing (wanting to be) a sharpened knife, a true blurry lens, a question complication, a dirge, a demand, horny, monstrous, mourning? do you wanna write hard & read writers who are same? hard femme poetics is for you!
Sustaining Us Series Launch
Tuesday, March 11, 12 - 1:15pm PT, on Zoom
The San Francisco Disability Cultural Center is launching a new series called Sustaining Us. With workshops, panels, and community discussions, we’ll explore our passions – the things we love to do – and how they sustain us. It’s a tricky dance between doing creative work, surviving ableism, and gaining financial freedom. In our first panel, we’ll learn from three small-business owners about how they are pursuing their passions: 5th-generation beadworker Sarah Young Bear-Brown, Riz Carthins of Yarn Against the Machine, and Chef Lulu of Casa Borinqueña. Join us for an afternoon of storytelling, real talk, and creative energy.
Shaping the Future of Accessibility and Safety in Performing Arts Spaces Listening Session
TODAY, March 10, 2 - 4pm ET, online
Join the Network for Accessibility, Performing Arts, and Disaster Preparedness—a growing community shaping the intersection of accessibility and safety—and participate in the second Listening Session.