Crip News v.80
Hoping y'all are rested and calm today. Intensities at the very bottom.
NEWS
New Works
Abilities Dance Boston recently premiered Intersections v2, which interprets works and stories by BIPOC disabled artists and organizers Annie Segarra, Cheryl Cumings, Keith Jones, Pelenakeke Brown, Carrie Ann Lucas, Sandy Ho, and Keisha Greaves.
Katie Walsh writes for Teen Vogue about the need for the labor movement to support disabled workers.
Maggie Bridger’s Scale, a multi-media performance work, will show at High Concept Labs in Chicago this weekend, May 13th and 14th. More here.
The Guardian’s Caroline Butterwick writes about “co-creation” as a choreographic paradigm in physically integrated dance companies in the U.K.
The Disability & Philanthropy Forum has released a report, “Foundation Giving for Disability.” In it, they find that “for every $10 in U.S. grantmaking among the 1000 largest foundations, only one penny goes to disability rights and social justice.” Executive Director Emily Harris and Borealis Philanthropy President Amoretta Morris have penned an op-ed about the findings. And Emily Ladau hosts a new podcast called Disability Inclusion: Required.
For Philanthropy News Digest, Kyoko Uchida also writes about the new report and recent trends in U.S. philanthropy’s focus on disability rights that lags in intersectional support.
Disability scholar Michael Orsini was a recent guest on In/Equality with Debra Thompson.
Sonia Sarkar interviews Erica Woodland and Cara Page about their new book, Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety, for Nonprofit Quarterly.
Clare Keogh has created short films about the disabled artists at Ireland’s Crawford Supported Studio. You can check them out, unfortunately without captions or audio description, on Echo LIVE.
Greenwich+Docklands International Festival is the first UK festival to be awarded platinum status for disability access by Attitude is Everything. Artistic Director Bradley Hemmings recently wrote about the need to prioritize outdoor festival access for The Stage.
DESTROY THE GAP is an exhibition of 23 contemporary designers and artists engaging in disability discourse through aesthetics. Opening Friday, May 12th from 5 - 7pm ET in the Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery at Bowling Green State University, available to experience until June 4.
Australia: Private Equity & Disability
I try to keep tabs on the movements of private equity firms around disability, one profound and ongoing threat to disability liberation. One recent article in the Australian Financial Review opens with this paragraph:
Private equity investors are pouring money into businesses servicing the National Disability Insurance Scheme, sensing an opportunity for outsized returns, after profits in the sector grew more than 29 per cent on average every year since 2018.
NDIS Minister Bill Shorten recently outlined a plan for systemic reforms to the program, which prompted the First Peoples Disability Network of Australia to enumerate his agency’s massive failures to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander disabled people.
CALLS
The Open Access Foundation for Arts and Culture (OAFAC) is seeking new Canada-based members for its Board of Directors. Applications due May 22nd. More here.
Nonfiction Access Initiative at the International Documentary Association is is seeking respondents for its Nonfiction Media Makers with Disabilities Survey.
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EVENTS
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SiQ’s HideAway
Saturday, May 13th, 1 - 4pm ET, on Zoom
Sick in Quarters (SiQ) responds to this systemic eugenicist violence with the fourth installation of our HideAway virtual event series. This is a continued act of resistance toward denialism and mass death. In this event, we will be offering a disabled-led safer space for our community to share our grief, rage, love– everything in between and beyond together. In this gathering and all of our spaces, we prioritize the experiences of 2STLGBQIA+ Black and Indigenous people, and People of the Global Majority. We welcome members of our community who have been with us for some time, and those who are just joining us. We also welcome family, friends, and care pods of anyone who is newly processing internalized ableism. Anyone who presumes that they are non-disabled or able-bodied are encouraged to attend quietly and respectfully.
Disability Culture Methods: Process/Score-Work in the University Dance Classroom
Wednesday, May 10th, 7:30pm - 8:30pm ET, online
Presented by Petra Kuppers and Elisabeth Motley. In this webinar, we will look at various ways that disability culture methods can enhance, supplement and disrupt dance classrooms in productive and enjoyable ways. How can we use score-work and media engagement to re-do notions of presence, in particular when so many students cannot be present all the time in person, have to be online, cannot commit to harsh time regimes, or deal with injury and rest periods? How can we use disability artistry and lineage work to understand how else dance can find its way into the (university and public) world?
Rest in Power, Jordan Neely
Jordan Neely was killed by a white man on a subway car in Manhattan who continues to walk free. As Leah Harris, Liat Ben-Moshe, & Vesper Moore write for Truthout, “the murder has put a renewed spotlight on carceral logics of the state that assume the disposability of Black, poor and unhoused people — in particular those said to be in ‘mental health crisis.’” In a disgusting logical perversion, Mayor Eric Adams, whose policies demonize disabled people in public space, has used the occasion to call for an increasing of the kind of policing that endangers BIPOC disabled people every day.
We remember Neely as a Black artist creatively mal-adjusted to the injustices of food scarcity and homelessness.
“In Defense of Autistic Trans Self-Determination“
Cyree Jarelle Johnson & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha have published the statement as an effort to call out the right's dangerous strategy of weaponizing ableism as a tool to advance trans hatred and thus, fascism, as witnessed in the recent Missouri emergency declaration banning gender affirming care for all trans adults and youth.