Crip News v.209

New works, new recordings, other news, calls, and events.

NEWS

New Works

• This week is the virtual release of Sins Invalid’s 2024 performance Stages of Grief: Crip Hearts on Fire. Featuring work by Tré Vasquez, María Palacios, Nomy Lamm, Germán Parodi, Lateef McLeod and Antoine Hunter and Urban Jazz Dance Company.

Jeffrey Meris, Lift Up Your Head (2024)

• How do you throw a brick through the window… recently closed at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University (Boston). The show, featuring work by Yani aviles, Chloe P. Crawford, Nat Decker, Jeff Kasper, Carly Mandel, Jeffrey Meris, and Libby Paloma, “presents new commissions and recent works of art exploring how individuals with disabilities, chronic illnesses, and neurodivergence navigate forms of protest despite the normalization of ableism in public spaces.” In 2026, the exhibition will travel to the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (Sheboygan, WI).

  

• anna RG recently published “(in)filtration + a welcome (noise),” an essay on nondisabled silence and duetting with air purifiers.

• This week, UK-based disabled artist Corinne premieres The Severed Wing, “a magical, visceral and intimate live encounter between one physical space and another” streamed live from the artist’s bed.

  

• The Access Playbook, a project of the Canadian resource hub Creative Connector, recently published a literature and research findings from focus groups and interviews on the barriers to Deaf and Disability inclusion in the performing arts.

• Following a summit with over 50 advocates from the reproductive and disability rights communities, Casey Doherty and Mia Ives-Rublee from the Center for American Progress published “Disability Reproductive Equity Agenda: Protecting the Reproductive Rights of Disabled People in 2025 and Beyond.”

• In The Sick Times, Dr. Julia Moore Vogel recently describes how she and her colleagues designed one of the only at-home clinical trials for Long COVID - and the largest one yet. Their Tirzepatide trial is currently recruiting.

New Recordings

• Sista Creatives Rising’s 3rd Art & Mind event explored “themes of COVID, climate & disability, their ongoing effects on disabled BIPOC creatives, and how it’s affected their art.”

• The 3rd Visual AIDS Research Symposium was recently held at MoMA (NYC).

In Other News…

• Last month, US Representatives Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick and Ayanna Pressley Introduced a resolution recognizing Disabled Women’s Equal Pay Day.

• This week, the Latin Grammys will feature International Sign Language with Latin and Deaf signers for the first time, thanks to advocacy by Recording Artists & Music Professionals with Disabilities (RAMPD) and Pro Bono ASL.

• Southern Connecticut State University recently launched a new Critical Disability Studies minor.

  

• A group of autistic content creators and researchers recently published a summary of over 200 autistic people’s views on employment, meant to help inform the UK’s 2026 updates to the Autism Act.

• Global Disability Inclusion recently launched its new Disability Inclusion Program Seal, an assessment of “organizations that are creating better workplace programs for people with disabilities.” The multi-billion dollar company Michaels received the highest level of recognition.

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CALLS

• Donate to support a disabled chronically ill and neurodivergent Black person who needs help to cover expenses for urgent surgery, rent, groceries and to keep her electricity on.

• Project LETS needs funds to grow its Anti-Carceral Mental Health Response Program, including frontline response during psychiatric incarceration.

• Mask Bloc NYC is out of funds and urgently needs donations.

• San Francisco State University is accepting applications for the Paul K. Longmore Faculty Director of Disability Studies. Apply by Nov. 24.

• Creative Adaptations is accepting applications for its Adapting Choreography Workshop for disabled and nondisabled dancers and choreographers taking place Nov. 21 - 23 in NYC. Apply by Nov. 12.

• UK-based artist and researcher Amanda Lynch is seeking respondents to a survey exploring the impacts of the changes to digital access to galleries and museums since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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EVENTS

• FULL FRONTAL CRIP
  Thursday. Nov. 13, 6 - 11pm PT, in-person at LINT (LA)
  Come together for a night of music, movement, stillness, dancing and collective otherness as we bring the Cripple to the front. All welcome. FULL FRONTAL CRIP will be a Cripples-to-the-front event. The world we move through, the spaces we inhabit - these are fundamentally inaccessible in their physical architecture, but also in the their social and emotional frameworks. There is rarely a space for collective being that is accessible and brings the other to the front. So come together for a night of music, movement, stillness, dancing, sitting and collectiveness as we bring the Cripple to the front. All bodies welcome, all bodies wanted. Let’s party in pain, let’s be together.

• Deaf Resilience in Gaza
  Wednesday, Nov. 12, 12 - 1pm ET, online
  Join Eyewitness Palestine in support of the Deaf community in Gaza. We will be joined by Omar Nabil from Deaf Relief Gaza, Deaf Gazan journalist Basem Alhabel, as well as Ranem Shhadeh from the Olive Guardians. Learn about their work in Gaza and how you can get involved!

• Omnium Circus
  Sunday, Nov. 16, 3pm, in-person at Queens Theater (NYC)
  Omnium Circus is a world renowned comprehensively inclusive and accessible circus company bringing excitement, thrills and joy to people of all ages as only a circus can!

• Lunch Time Learning: Prison and Mental Health for Deaf/Disabled Communities
  Monday, Nov. 17, 12:30 PM ET, online
  Join HEARD and My Deaf Therapy as we focus on the importance of supporting deaf/disabled people impacted by carceral systems and access to mental health services during and after incarceration. You’ll learn from HEARD’s Reentry Support Program Director and a Licensed Social Worker from My Deaf Therapy. This event is also featuring a special guest, who is a deaf, formerly incarcerated person, mentor, and Public Education Team (PET) graduate! PET is a communal space that HEARD organizes for deaf/disabled formerly incarcerated folks to learn about practicing harm reduction, reimagining safety, developing an abolitionist framework, and more.

• Collaborative Indexing: Disability Arts and Dependent Textuality
  Workshop
  Saturday, Nov. 22, 12 – 2:30pm ET, in-person at Wendy’s Subway (NYC)
  Led by Charlotte Strange. The New Disability Arts movement calls for accessibility as a formal consideration and an interpersonal practice. Artists in this movement, including Jordan Lord, Carolyn Lazard, and Constantina Zavitsanos have utilized textual forms like captions, subtitles, and audio description for composition and access. With this in mind, this workshop addresses the literary index as an existing type of access form—a “dependent textuality” accounting for the multi-pronged ways a document produces knowledge. We will make use of the literary index as a poetic form while creating our own shared document. In doing so, we will collectively explore the multivalent relationships between disability and alternative forms of knowledge transmission.