Crip News v.84

Happy Pride, new works, calls, and events.

NEWS

Happy LGBTQ+ Pride

Queercrip legend Willow Pill.

Pride 2023 is another beautiful conundrum. Corporations continue to co-opt the rage that activated the Stonewall uprisings amid a wave of anti-queer and anti-trans legislation across the U.S. But inside queer communities, it’s a time to recognize the life-saving work of our chosen families. It’s also a time to remember that disabled queers started the deep work of throwing off stigma and shame. Through the weirdness and complexity, happy pride!

New Works

• London Ontario Media Arts Association (LOMAA) is closing out its spring 2023 online performance series “Virtual Encounters” with a new work by Jerron Herman called Lax.vid, “a digital musing on the athletic and dissembling conditions of rest. Cast in a dream-like schism between reality and hyperreality, a figure navigates an embodied and digital memory of comfort, using his screen as a portal, asking us what it takes to catch some zzzz’s.”

• The video from Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s 2023 Fordham Distinguished Lecture on Disability is out.

• Kickstart’s ACCESSFest 2023 concluded yesterday in Vancouver, featuring an array of collaborations and events.

• Touretteshero’s Burnt Out in Biscuit Land, “blending film, live performance and conversation,” comes to Turner Contemporary in Margate, U.K. this week.

• ASL artist Brandon Kazen-Maddox was recently featured in ABC 7 New York’s Storytellers Spotlight for Pride month.

• The Australian premiere of Jellyfish by Ben Weatherill, “a contemporary love story and a tender exploration of what living with disability really entails,” will take place this week at New Theater in Newtown.

• The New Yorker recently published “The Case that Being Poor and Black is Bad for Your Health” by Lauren Michele Jackson, a review of Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society by Arline T. Geronimus.

• Another fabulous issue of Disability Debrief is out: “A just transition for disabled people” by Áine Kelly-Costello.

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CALLS

• The People’s CDC is organizing a campaign to overwhelm the U.S. Federal Register with comments encouraging Medicare & Medicaid to include COVID in its Hospital-Acquired Condition (HAC) Reduction Program and/or its Value-Based Purchasing Program. More here.

• The American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) is hiring an Events and Logistics Coordinator, Programs Coordinator, Fall Internship Program Assistant, and Chief Operating Officer. More here.

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EVENTS

Access Worlding: An Inventory Workshop

Friday, June 16, 5:30 - 7pm ET, in-person at Lincoln Center, on Zoom, and in a virtual world

Access ecologies invite us to discover and expand. They involve intentional strategies for being with each other and our surroundings. At this kickoff event for the Cultivating Access Ecologies series, we will convene with artists and organizers—remotely and in-person—for a participatory workshop to document and imagine how we build worlds with accessibility. What magic will emerge when we start with access, when we dance at the boundaries between us? Join us to make an inventory of the tools we have and the tools we need.

Kinetic Light LAB Hangout

Thursday, June 8, 2 - 3pm ET, on Zoom

LAB hangouts are specifically for folks who identity with or who have personal experience with disability, including but not limited to those who identify as chronically ill, neurodiverse, with learning or intellectual disabilities, MAD, Deaf/deaf/HOH, Blind, low vision and on. This cross-disability space welcomes all who are unsure or who might not yet identify with disability identity and culture.

13 Ways to Resist the Medical-Industrial Complex

Thursday, June 8, 8 - 10am ET, on Zoom

Please join Rise, Mordecai and the Health Justice Commons community to welcome Maria and Fabián from Interrupting Criminalization’s Beyond Do No Harm Project. Maria and Fabián will share information on Beyond Do No Harm’s 13 Principles for supporting peoples’ agency and disrupting the criminalization of our communities and our healthcare workers accomplices. With the MIC being increasingly used by the far right to target trans youth, and criminalize our communities and healthcare workers for providing gender-affirming and reproductive justice centered care, there’s no better time than now to come together to strategize our resistance and dreamstorm our next actions. This is a gathering for and by rad healers and healthcare workers, Disability Justice activists, organizers, and community members who are engaged in the work of transforming healthcare systems and creating alternatives. We include the daily work of survival as a form of rebellion for us as chronically ill, neurodivergent, Mad, and disabled people. Our survival is a source of deep wisdom!

Care Writes: Exploring the Labor of Love - A Black disabled-led virtual writing workshop by Octavia's Chariot

Monday, June 19, 1 - 3pm ET, on Google Meet

Octavia’s Chariot offers a nurturing space for participants to delve into the art of writing, regardless of their previous experience, while focusing on the topic of care, love, labor, and capacity as disabled people. Participants will also be given the opportunity to receive feedback on their work/ideas and engage in conversation in whichever ways are comfortable for them (i.e. chat, Padlet, audio, or on camera).