Crip News v.230
New works, other news, calls, and events.
NEWS
New Works
The London-based misery collective has published misery meals: a crip community anti-cookbook for when eating and cooking is hard. Editor Aisha Mirza was a recent guest on the Still Here podcast from The Sick Times discussing the recipes, hacks, plans, and guides. “Let this be one of so many books,” writes Leah Piepzna-Samarasinha in their afterword, “throwing out lifelines of recipes and crip food hacks to each other and shouting: our lives are real, and we deserve to live.”
Photo from Hand in Hand. After Governor Gavin Newsome proposed a $2,000 Medi-Cal asset limit, disabled activists with California-based LTSS4All Grassroots Coalition, Hand in Hand, and disabled artist Jillian Crochet projected messages of “Disabled RAGE” in Sacramento, inspired by Alice Wong and Finnegan Shannon’s 2025 campaign.
CULTURED’s “Indulgence” issue features Deaf artist Christine Sun Kim’s reflections on one of the seven deadly sins: wrath.
Hac Vinent, Accident (2024). Photo by Roberto Ruiz. The Spring Summer 2026 issue of the French-English bilingual contemporary art magazine Esse arts + opinions, is called “Handi/Crip.” It explores “a political weight,” the editors write, “that provides those who embrace [the words “handi” and “crip”] with a powerful tool for empowerment, offering disabled artists non-normative ways for articulating the strange temporalities of disabled experience and alternative ways for navigating an ableist art world.”
The newest issue of Push/Pull, a publication of the NYC-based arts nonprofit Culture Push, asserts “Healthcare is a Human Right.” Edited by disabled artist and organizer Megan Bent, the issue documents a community conversation from March 2025 with Donald Moore from Physicians for a National Health Program, Jamila Headley from Be A Hero, and Marianne Pizzitola from NYC Org of Public Service Retirees.
A new plain language research brief by Morrigan Hunter, Willi Horner-Johnson, and Monika Mitra at Brandeis University’s Lurie Institute for Disability Policy found that “reproductive healthcare resources for people with disabilities exist, but can be hard to find and insufficient.”
The Lurie Institute also recently published a recording and other materials from a webinar last month called “How Doulas Can Help Disabled Pregnant People.”
In Other News…
Paralympian, manual wheelchair user, and self-described “prairie populist” Josh Turek will be the Democratic hopeful to flip Iowa’s open Senate seat in the fall mid-term elections.
CALLS
Soft Publishing is seeking submissions of art and writing for an anthology about Trans* and Disabled Grief and Rage. Submit by July 19.
Applications are open for D.A.R.E. - Disabled Artist Residency Exchange, “a 4-day residency bringing together a small group of D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent artists in a supportive, collaborative environment,” curated by Marc Brew Company and supported by the DDN Training Network. Apply by June 26.
Fordham University is hiring a full-time Executive Director of Accessibility Resources.
EVENTS
On Prosthetics: Berenice Olmedo and David Gissen in Conversation
Thursday June 18, 6:30 – 8pm, in-person at the New Museum Theater (NYC)
This evening brings together scholar David Gissen and artist Berenice Olmedo to consider how physical capacities, postures, and abilities play into definitions of what it means to be human. It is organized in conjunction with New Humans: Memories of the Future, which includes work by Olmedo, and will be moderated by Alethea Rockwell, Keith Haring Director of Education and Public Engagement.Creative and Accessible Strats for Rapid Micro-Film Production
Wednesday, June 17, 2pm ET, online
FWD-Doc’s June Member Meeting features a Skill Swap with Cashmere Jasmine, Cedric Tai, and Gina Chin-Davis, three FWD-Doc members who recently took part in OTV’s Brave Futures program for neurodivergent filmmakers. With just an iPhone 17 and two weeks, they each created a 5-minute short film exploring how different experiences of neurodivergence shape the way we create and tell stories. Members can RSVP via the registration link in the Facebook Group or Google Group.
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