Crip News v.12
Welcome to the last issue of 2021. Thanks for being here. ❤️🔥
I write from yet another flatten-the-curve moment as we bid farewell to 2021. I am full of sadness and rage about the enforcements of precarity for disability communities everywhere and still amazed and hopeful about the work of mutual aid networks and Disability Justice organizing.
Thank you for joining me to study and process disability culture and politics in this newsletter each week. I feel closer to you all even in our prolonged periods of isolation.
I am astounded that the first 11 issues have generated 14,991 total views. (If you’re interested in other data: 569 subscribers, 62% open rate, 28% click rate.) I am deeply moved that this newsletter brings you something useful.
As we head into 2022, let’s keep connecting. Send me your news and events and ideas for what should go here. Tell me what you need from a thing like this. Let’s press on.
I hope you are finding rest and calm. Talk to you next year.
Kevin
Some new stuff from fantastic disabled organizers:
Dolly Sen’s new film Broken Hearts for the DWP remembers the lives of disabled people who have died after their benefits were cut by the U.K.’s Department for Work and Pensions.
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) has released a white paper on the ethics of autism interventions.
The Disability Inside/Outside Project has released the third issue of their zine, Sick of It!, which amplifies the voices of incarcerated disabled people and elucidates the connections between prison abolition and disability liberation. To support this work, you can donate through Venmo: @sickofit.
Some art news:
Dance/NYC has announced the new cohort of Disability. Dance. Artistry. Residents: x, Sonya Rio-Glick, Ogemdi Ude, Larissa Velez-Jackson / LVJ Performance Co., iele paloumpis, Elisabeth Motley, Elisa Hernandez, David Lee Sierra, Anna Gichan, and Alison Kopit.
The Smithsonian Magazine profiles the celebrated 19th-century miniaturist Sarah Biffin.
Design and Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics is open at the Cooper Hewitt Museum, a complement to MASS Design Group’s new book The Architecture of Health.
Mara Mills interviews Riva Lehrer in BOMB.
In Artforum, Susanne Pfeffer, director of the Museum MMK für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt selects Pareidolia (Vaccinate Now) by Brothers Sick (Ezra & Noah Benus) as one of the top 10 highlights of new work in 2021.
The National Theater Company of Korea will debut 6 new plays under the theme “disability and art” from March to April 2022.
ReelAbilities New York is hiring 2 seasonal staffers to prepare for the film festival in April: Project Manager - ReelAbilities Stream and Guests and Partnerships Coordinator. For more information, email Yaara Kedem at ykedem@mmjccm.org
