NEWS
New Works
The world premiere of Kinetic Light and Double Eye Studio’s territory will take place as part of an “Extended Reality Salon” at Jacob’s Pillow (Becket, MA) this weekend. The work is “an immersive virtual reality experience centered in a futuristic post-apocalyptic disabled world.”
The Re•Vision Centre for Art and Social Justice at the University of Guelph has launched the Worlding Difference Knowledge Platform, a free collection of interactive learning modules featuring “multimedia art and book-length courses on non-normative bodies and minds as studied in various fields, including disability, aging, neurodiversity, d/Deaf, fat and aging activist arts and culture and more.”
Researchers at the University of Toronto and the Patient-Led Research Collaborative recently published an article in PLOS One that applies the “Episodic Disability Framework,” derived by people living with HIV, to Long Covid.
Luckiest Little Freak by Emma Singer opens this week at Summertime Gallery (Brooklyn, NYC). The artist’s first solo show features soft sculptures combining “quilting with puppetry’s spirit of improvisation and play.” On view through August 9.
Dan Bowhay’s “slow cinema” video work Between These Times will be on view starting this week as part of the Arts University Bournemouth (Poole, England) Undergraduate Summer Shows 2025. The piece is drawn from footage of the 850 miles Bowhay traveled on buses across England “to highlight the challenges faced by disabled bus pass users.”
New Books
Ramping Up Rights: An Unfinished History of British Disability Activism by
Rachel Charlton-Dailey is out from Hurst.
Love, Money, Duty: Stories of Care in Our Times by Rachel Adams is out from Columbia University Press.
All of Us: A First Conversation About Disability by Dr. Megan Madison with Jessica Ralli and illustrated by Jonathan Eden, is out as part of Penguin Random House’s First Conversations series.
CALLS
Black Disabled Lives Matter organizer Jermaine Greaves is booking a film tour for Jermaine Greaves, a film by Gil Rios. Greaves is available for in-person or virtual screenings or other speaking events.
Tangled Art + Disability is accepting applications to exhibit artwork at Tangled Art Gallery (Toronto). Submit by August 8.
Shape Arts is seeking submissions of artwork “which responds imaginatively to themes of rights, protest, power, and the state of the British welfare system” for its annual Shape Open 2025. Apply by July 27.
Visual AIDS (NYC) is hiring an Archive Fellow. Apply by July 31.
EVENTS
Bed-In: STOP RFK Jr's Autism Registry
Saturday, July 12, 1 - 4pm ET, on Zoom
Disability Community for Democracy, Inc. is hosting a virtual protest of RFK Jr.’s proposed autism registry.
Reclaiming Our Legacy: Disability Action & Joy
Friday, July 11, 3 - 7pm PT, in-person at the Ed Roberts Campus (Berkeley, CA)
A coalition of racial justice and disability rights & justice organizations are hosting a protest-meets-celebration event that centers cross-movement solidarity, political power, and disability joy and resistance.Disability Pride, Disability Joy Exists
Sunday, July 13, 11:30am – 1:30pm ET, in-person at the Whitney Museum (NYC)
An artmaking program celebrating Disability Pride Month led by Annie Nishwani Lachhman, a disabled artist, and Lakshmee Lachhman-Persad, an educator on disability inclusion and accessibility. The workshop invites participants of all ages and backgrounds to learn about the progressive Disability Pride flags, explore various aspects of disability, and create their own art.
WAWABILITY 2025
Friday, July 11 & Saturday, July 12, in-person at The Anthem (Washington, DC)
An inaugural festival from Warren WAWA Snipe celebrating 35 years of life changing impact made by the ADA with two nights of entertainment performed by the trailblazers who shattered limits and rising stars who are just getting started.Disability Unite NYC
Saturday, July 13, in-person at the Central Park Bandshell (NYC) and live-streamed
Join the sixth annual Disability Unite Festival to mark the 35th anniversary of the Americana with Disabilities Act, including the Disability Hip-Hop Jam.Storm the Mic: Pride Dammit
Sunday, July 12, 6pm CT, on Zoom
An open mic space presented by Thunder & Lightning Poetry Collective designed to support storytelling that speaks to the Disability experience, that center Disability Pride.Disabilities in Film: The Impact of Representation
Friday, July 11, 12pm PT, in-person at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures (LA)
Join the Academy in conversation with Easterseals Disability Film Challenge Filmmaker and Deaf Creator Chrissy Marshall, Co-Founder of the 1N4 Coalition and Founder and Executive Artistic Director of The Miracle Project Elaine Hall, and Easterseals Disability Film Challenge Filmmaker Lee Pugsley as they explore the impact of authentic disability representation in film, the current state of disabled talent in front of and behind the camera, parts of the industry that need improvement in accommodating people with disabilities, how to support the disabled community, and more. This conversation will be moderated by Academy Vice President of Member Relations, Global Outreach, and Awards Administration Rose Wuyts-Wilson.
Rest in Power, Patty Berne
Patty Berne joined the ancestors on May 29, 2025.
In a statement, their kin said they passed “with peace and grace surrounded by chosen and birth family in a space filled with tenderness, grief, and immense love.”
Patty was a luminary of Disability Justice, one of the people who built the framework used around the world today. They co-founded Sins Invalid and served as the organization’s longtime Executive and Artistic Director.
Patty’s influence is impossible to describe or contain. The artistry they created and supported in others, their curricula and trainings, their documentaries, the networks they cultivated and maintained are all living testimonies to their loving stewardship of a radical call to liberation.
Sins Invalid asks us to stay tuned in the weeks and months ahead for opportunities to hold spaces to honor and celebrate Patty’s world-shifting legacy.