Crip News v.13
An exclusive interview! Links! Calls! Events! Thanks for being here. ✨
Happy New Year!
“Chrononormativity” comes to mind today, a term that describes the way time is used to organize our bodies toward maximum productivity. If things don’t feel so happy, if this isn’t when you celebrate the new year, if you’re opting for Juicy January instead of Dry January, I hope you’re supported in your wholeness and complexity. ❤️🔥
I’m formatting Crip News a bit differently in 2022. Thanks to Emeline Lakrout for helping me strategize about a better flow for screen readers. Have other ideas? You can always reply to me here.
A Crip News Exclusive!
I am delighted to bring you an exclusive interview with Sara Barber-Just, the head of the English Department at Amherst Regional High School in Massachusetts. In the fall, Sara will teach a new course called Disability Justice Literature. We discussed the work she’s done to prepare for this course and a new required unit for all students on disability history and culture, the way her classroom feels like a spa, how the materials draw out connections to queer, trans, and racial justice, and more.
Rest in Power
Dr. Michelle Hernandez was a Latinx disabled clinical psychologist, founder of The Disability Guru, and an activist force.
News
Disability Justice
TL Lewis’s update to the working definition of ableism, developed in community with Black/negatively racialized folk, especially Dustin Gibson, reflects lessons from the non/responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
An Instagram post from @crip.crap.media shows pink text on a black background with the spoiler alert blog logo followed by text that reads “The Category Is: Disability Justice History in Pose by Joy Michael Ellison.”
The COVID-19 Pandemic
Germany’s highest court has ruled that disabled people must be protected by legally binding guidelines in hospital triage protocols.
As Omicron continues to drive another surge in new cases in the U.S., advice to “leave a paper trail” with a positive PCR result indicates concern that long-COVID cases will continue to be ignored by the Social Security Administration.
Arts writer and curator Jeanne Vaccaro shares techniques for treating COVID at home.
The Opioid Crisis
A jury in New York has found Teva Pharmaceuticals guilty of fueling the national epidemic of opioid deaths, adding momentum to the pressure to hold the drug industry accountable for peddling fatal solutions for chronic pain.
Access Design
Construction has begun on Multi-Family Kin, a house on the outskirts of Madrid that “explores networks of care across generations beyond the nuclear family.”
Colorado’s first wheelchair using lawmaker, Rep. David Ortiz, will finally be able to reach the capitol building’s speaker’s podium via a brand new gold lift.
Testing Trouble
At-home COVID tests might be getting the biggest share of concern, but The New York Times recently published reporting about other wildly inaccurate testing protocols: one about pre-natal testing to predict congenital disabilities and one about the Hybrid III crash test figure for car safety that creates fatal distinctions for anyone who does not have the body of an average young male.
Worst Words
Australia’s Plain English Foundation release its list of the Worst Words of 2021. “Centres for National Resilience” topped the list.
Sex in the Archive
The new site DisabledParts.com was created for “sex positive, survivor centered information, and for uplifting the experiences of disabled people in regards to our unique and varied sexualities.”
Memoirs Reviewed
In the Los Angeles Review of Books, Goldie Goldbloom reviews Riva Lehrer’s Golem Girl and Jan Grue’s I Live a Life Like Yours.
Joyful Things
Happy 25th birthday to the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability at San Francisco State University.
Nashville’s inclusive runway show, Fashion is for Every Body, made WPLN’s list of “stories that brought us joy in 2021.”
Calls
The National Council on Public History and the National Park Service have issued a Request for Letters of Interest to select a Lead Editor who will oversee the research, writing, and editing of a scholarship-based official NPS Handbook on the history of people with disabilities in the United States.
Presentation proposals for the 22nd Annual Multiple Perspectives Conference (April 11 & 12, 2022) at Ohio State University are due by Jan. 23rd.
The Holding Space Archive has extended its open call for bed portraits to Feb. 16th.
Abstracts for “Unlearn the Body: New Approaches on Disability and Art History” (June 3 & 4 in Zurich) are due Jan. 21st.
Events
Kinetic Light’s Artist Support Programs
I am hosting some pilot programming to support and connect artists in the field of disability arts as part of my work as Organizer with Kinetic Light. Follow the registration links below for more information. ASL, CART, access doula-ing, and other forms of care through collaborative strategy. No cost.
Grant Writing for Disability Artistry
Wednesday, Jan. 12th
Settling in 3:30-4pm ET
Program 4-5pm ET
DETAILS & REGISTRATIONGrant Management for Disability Artistry
Wednesday, Jan. 19th
Settling in 4:30-5pm ET
Program 5-6pm ET
DETAILS & REGISTRATION
Symposium on Creative Community Organizing
Cultural Organizing for Community Change
Presented by Arts & Democracy and Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts NY
Saturday, Jan. 8th, 11am-6pm ET
Automated transcription, other access features by request.
Sliding scale $10, $25, $50
Fireweed Collective’s Winter 2022 Offerings
MORE INFORMATION + REGISTRATION
Anti-Oppressive Mental Health 101
Open Workshop – Jan. 28th, 4-6pm ET
Workshop for BIPOC Folks – Feb. 2nd, 7-9pm ET
Workshop for Mental Health/Healing Justice workers and providers – Feb. 25th, 4-7pm ET
Witnessing: A Practice Space For Active Listening
Open Space – Feb. 4th, 4-6pm ET
BIPOC Space – Jan. 12th, 4-6pm ET
TF Is A Safety Team? Presented by Elliott Fukui
Jan. 27th, 8-10pm ET
Dismantling The Cycle Of Romance. Presented by Dean Spade
Feb. 16th, 8-10pm ET
Weekly Support Groups
Richard III Reimagined in a High School
Teenage Dick at the Huntington Theatre
11-camera recording available through Jan. 16th
Pay what you wish