Crip News v.227
New works, calls, and events.
NEWS
New Works
Earlier this year, organizer Vilissa Thompson was on Imani Gandy’s B*tch, Listen podcast talking about “why disabled victims are erased from true crime, how ableism shapes which stories get told, and what ethical storytelling requires when disability is involved.”
The latest issue of the Voices in Contemporary Art Journal is called deaf*. It features work by the issue editors Liza Sylvestre and Christopher Robert Jones, as well as Seo Hye Lee, Rotem Tamir, Hannah Wallis, Margaret Fink, JJJJJerome Ellis, Alison O’Daniel, Mirthe Berentsen, and Louise Hickman.
The Ford Foundation recently highlighted some of its U.S. Disability Rights grantees working to advance disability economic justice: Patrice Jetter and Garry Wickham’s fight for marriage equality and Little Lobbyist’s advocacy for families with complex medical needs.
Artist and theorist Anastasia (A) Alevtin and artistic researcher Anouk Hoogendoorn recently published “By Way of Brackets(, Ellipses, and One Hyphen): On Neuroqueer Punctuating and Crip Knowing-Making” in Errant Journal. The text considers punctuation in the tradition of crip and queer writing where brackets, dots(, hyphens, and more ... ) are explicitly used against normative and linear ideas of ‘linguistic success.’
Earlier this year, New York Times cooking columnist Yewande Komolafe published “How Losing My Limbs Turned Me Into a Different Kind of Cook.”
Cultural worker, dramaturg, and caption designer McClain Leong recently published “How to Embrace the Dramaturgy of Creative Caption Design” with HowlRound.
Photo by William Yi. Teen Vogue’s Olivia Tauber recently interviewed disabled designer Destiny Pinto about her label that “reimagines assistive devices like compression gloves, ostomy bags, and hearing aids through a fashion lens.”
In Other News…
Last week, just days before a long-awaited deadline for compliance with federal guidelines about web and digital access, the Trump Administration abruptly delayed the deadline until April 26, 2027.
Disabled activist and artist Kalyn Heffernan was shocked to learn that the Denver Regional Transportation District is using her likeness on a public bus without ever contacting her. “My entire mayor campaign of 2019 was centered on making transit free and accessible to all,” she wrote in an Instagram post. “Do you really think I would ever encourage them to use my likeness while stripping our already limited service!?”
CALLS
Artist and organizer Aurora Levins Morales is recovering from open heart surgery. Donations are requested to support her care.
Calling Up Justice! has opened applications for an in-person paid, disability-centered summer internship program for disabled folks, 21-30 years old, in the Bay Area. Apply ASAP.
The Nest Collab: A Disability & Chronic Illness Justice Project invites applications from disabled organizers, scholars, artists, culture workers, thinkers, and movement builders for Collective Care Clusters. Apply by May 7.
Applications are open for PeoplesHub‘s Summer 2026 Undoing Internalized Ableism Cohort. Apply by May 15.
The Disabled Journalists Association released a call for interviews about trans bathroom access and disability.
Teach Access opened applications for the Fellowship Program Summer Institute focused on helping educators create instructional materials to teach accessibility. Apply by May 22.
EVENTS
Disability, Deafness and Neurodiversity in Architecture series
May 6 - June 3, on Zoom
Conceived and developed as a collaboration between the Bartlett School of Architecture and the Royal Danish Academy’s Centre for Spatial Inclusion, this inaugural series of public events is made up of two online seminars and two workshops. The first seminar and workshop will focus on Civic Crip Pedagogies, the second seminar and workshop will focus on Disabling the Archive.