Crip News v.189

Queer Pride, new works, other news, calls, and events.

NEWS

Happy? Pride?

It’s queer endurance month for those trying to honor the Mad Trans Black origins of Pride while navigating the present realities of ‘rainbow capitalism.’

Pride Month is an occasion to get with your people, cast off the shame too many of us learned as kids, and demonstrate the difference disability mutual aid can make in queer spaces. It’s a chance to link up with queer organizing that addresses the global imperialist co-optation of Pride.

Pride could be a time for vibrant political education. That’s why it stings when organizers of the annual WorldPride festival (who once worried it was becoming an "orgy of pinkwashing”) spent more time encouraging trans people to stay home than educating the public about the crucial role of disability protections for access to trans healthcare.

From The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions (1977) by Larry Mitchell, illustrated by Ned Asta.

But Pride isn’t over when it’s over. Next week brings new chances to elaborate our queer and crip solidarities when we roll into Disability Pride Month.

New Works

• Wren Dumais recently interviewed wheelchair motocross athlete Mo O’Neill for VTDigger.

Elephant Without Trunk no.2 (2024 - 2025) by OUM Jeongsoon.

• This is the final week of the disability arts show Crossing the Line: Our Bodies, Embedded with Others on view at the National Asian Culture Center of South Korea through June 29, featuring KIM Wonyoung·SON Naye·YEO Hyejin·LEE Jeeyang·HA Eunbeen, SONG Yeseul, Aya MOMOSE, OUM Jeongsoon, and Rémi KLEMENSIEWICZ.

• BODY, a queer party in Amsterdam, recently published an interview with disabled and queer visual artist Menko Dijksterhuis about nightlife access.

• People’s Jordan Greene recently profiled Carolyn, the woman behind the accessible cooking series EpicuriousExpeditions.

• For IndieWire, Reshma Gopaldas recently covered a panel discussion at the Cannes Film Festival called “Reimagining Hollywood: A New Lens on Disability” featuring actor Nic Novicki and Nancy Weintraub of Easterseals.

Lame (2017) by Jaklin Romine.

• Opulent Mobility: Re-Imagine Disability and Mobility, curated by A. Laura Brody and Anthony Tusler, recently closed at the Brand Library & Art Center in Glendale, CA.

• The American Bar Association recently published a “Lawyer Spotlight” on disability rights attorney Deepinder Goraya.

In Other News…

• Forbes recently published its first “Accessibility 100” list, assembled by an expert panel.

• Rideshare app Uber recently launched “senior accounts” for elders and their loved ones, concerning of many disability organizers.

• In NYC, a new bill would establish an accessibility fund for film, television, and theater productions that hire disabled workers.

  

• Apple recently announced that it will introduce “accessibility nutrition labels” to apps and games in its App Store that will offer “details about whether an offering is compatible with accessibility options like voice control, larger text, sufficient contrast, reduced motion, captions".

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CALLS

• Enter a raffle for a Care and Disability Justice bundle of goodies to support a Chicago-based artist named Ry.

• Applications are open for the Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities through July 10.

• Erin Clark is seeking a disabled performer to collaborate with through the Creative Producer Fellowship with the Canadian National Arts Centre.

• Abilities Dance Boston is hiring a Community Engagement Director. Apply by June 29.

• The Kennedy Center is hiring a full-time Access/VSA Assistant Project Manager.

• DIYabled, Opulent Mobility, and This Body is Worthy are seeking submissions of artwork for a Disability Pride Art show taking place next month.

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EVENTS

• Disability and Immigration: Building Partnerships for a Just Future
  Wednesday, June 25 - Friday, June 27, in-person at Loyola Marymount University (LA)
  Hosted by The Coelho Center for Disability Law, Policy and Innovation, this symposium will bring together disability and immigration rights and justice leaders from across the nation to build partnerships and explore advocacy strategies, legal frameworks, service delivery, and the evolving landscape of our movements. It’s a space for collaboration and discussion on crucial issues impacting disabled immigrants and refugees. The two-day conference will feature keynote speakers, plenary sessions, breakout panels, workshop sessions, and coalition and networking opportunities. Conference attendees are also invited to a screening of the documentary film unseen by Set Hernandez on June 25.

• Bridging The Divide: Making & Mending
  Saturday, June 28, 2pm CT, in-person at the South Asia Institute (Chicago) and online
  A moderated community conversation exploring how artists of South Asia and the diaspora navigate careers at the intersection of art and disability. Moderated by Anand Venkatkrishnan, and feauring Pooja Pittie, Grishma Shah, and Priya Rama.

• XR Access 2025: 3D Diversity
  Thursday, June 26 - Friday, June 27, in-person at the Cornell Tech campus in NYC and broadcasted online
  The XR Access Symposium is an annual conference for leaders in industry, academia, and advocacy to come together and solve the most pressing problems in extended reality accessibility. For 2025, our focus is 3D Diversity: how can we use XR and other emerging technologies to design valuable immersive applications for increasingly diverse audiences?

• Disability Representation in Children’s Media: The Making of Jeff Mouse on Donkey Hodie
  Wednesday, June 25, 3pm ET, on Zoom
  Join members of the behind-the-scenes team of Donkey Hodie, the PBS KIDS puppet series from Fred Rogers Productions and Spiffy Pictures, as they discuss the introduction of Jeff Mouse. The panel features co-executive producer Kristin DiQuollo, voice actor Jay Manuel, senior production designer Justin Vandenberg, and disability consultant and Lab Alumni Sam Krauss. The conversation will include a look at the nuances of disability representation in the development of Jeff Mouse and the intentionality of the series.