Crip News v.140

New works, other news, calls, and events.

Jul 15, 2024

New Works

Artist, educator, and organizer Kayla Hamilton has launched Circle O, an organization that “reimagines a dance world where Black Disabled and other multiply marginalized creatives are central and every body is worthy of care” through performance, education, and consulting. The short film above tells the deep histories of Circle O’s origins.
Sins Invalid’s School of Popular Education begins tomorrow and runs weekly through August 13.

Three Black men powerchair users are in a New York street with a background collage of video game images. Text says HBO Original. Quad Gods.

Jess Jacklin’s debut documentary Quad Gods, out now on HBO’s Max, follows three New York men - Blake Hunt, Richard Jacobs, and Prentice Hall - who meet at Mount Sinai Hospital’s neuro-rehabilitation lab and decide to form the first fully quadriplegic e-sports team.
The Unity Festival, one of the largest disability arts events in Europe, recently concluded in Cardiff, Wales. Artistic Director Ben Pettitt-Wade called on presenters to do more to showcase the work of disabled artists.

In Other News…

Investigative reporting by Rachana Pradhan and Samantha Liss from KFF Health News has uncovered widespread problems in the Medicaid eligibility system run by Deloitte, a global consulting giant that pulls in at least $5 billion from 25 U.S. states for this work.

Protesters hold a sign at a demonstration to end disability poverty and raise social assistance rates in April 2022 at Queen's Park in Toronto. A rally is scheduled Thursday for disability advocates in front of Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland's office to push for improvements to the Canada Disability Benefit. — Photo from the **Ontario Disability Support Program Action Coalition**.

Canadian organizers recently gathered in Toronto to mark the historic win of the Canadian Disability Benefit and press for urgently needed expansion of the program.
San Francisco’s Disability Cultural Center, the first city-funded organization of its kind in the U.S., has launched its online programming.
Microsoft will pay a $14.4-million settlement for discriminating and retaliating against workers who take parental, disability, or care leave.

Jennifer Garner, wearing a dark-colored sweatshirt, bluejeans and sunglasses, holds hands with her daughter, Violet, who wears a “Succession”-themed T-shirt and an N95 respirator, as the two walk down a Los Angeles sidewalk. — Photo by **Bellocqimages**/**Bauer-Griffin**, via Getty Images.

Violet Affleck, daughter of the celebrities Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck, recently came out as chronically ill and called for clean air protections during the public comment portion of a meeting of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.

CALLS

Calling Up Justice is producing a community curated Virtual Pride event and is seeking participants to sign up and make offers and suggestions for the programming. More here.

EVENTS

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The Blue Description Project

Wednesday, July 17, 6:30pm ET, in-person at the Whitney Museum (NYC)

In celebration of Disability Pride Month, artists Liza Sylvestre and Christopher Jones present their elastic, experimental, and expansive Blue Description Project, created in collaboration with Dr. Sarah Hayden (Voices in the Gallery). The project reanimates a 1993 artwork by Derek Jarman through newly commissioned and expansive accessibility. Following the presentation, Sylvestre and Jones will speak about the project with 2024 Whitney Biennial artist Constantina Zavitsanos and Executive Director of Visual AIDS Kyle Croft.

A flier with a galaxy background in shades of light to dark blue. On each side are two graphic images of white shooting stars pointing towards the center. At the top of the flier is the collaboration name: “Disabled Delight X Disability Culture Lab.” In the center foreground is a circular graphic of the disability pride flag; inside the disability pride flag are the words detailing the show name, cast, date, time, location, and ticket info. At the top of the graphic is the show name “Disabled Delight.” Next right below in the center is the name of the show host “Host: Neuro Cosmos” and then the name of the DJ “Beats: DJ X_Xtra.” The last line in the center is the drag show cast “Drag: Oberon The Demon, Samson, & Thunderboi Tsai.” At the bottom of the same graphic is the Disabled Delight info: “Fri July 26. Doors 6:30PM, Show 8PM. 1441 L ST NW DC. $0-10 Tickets.” At the bottom of the flier, below the graphic, are the logos of the organizations co-hosting and co-sponsoring Disabled Delight for disability pride month: Disability Culture Lab, NAMED Advocates, Crushing Colonialism, New Disabled South, and Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network.

Disability Pride Month Drag Night and BIPOC Disabled Marketplace

Friday, July 26, 6:30 - 9:30pm ET, in-person in Washington D.C.

NAMED Advocates, Crushing Colonialism, New Disabled South, and Autistic Women and Nonbinary Network are all thrilled to co-host this special Disability Pride Month outdoor rooftop drag show extravaganza with Disabled Delight and Disability Culture Lab. Featuring a social hour, a BIPOC Disabled Marketplace with NAMED Advocates, harm reduction resources from HIPS, a set from DJ X_XTRA, and shows by NEURO COSMOS, OBERON THE DEMON, SAMSON, and THUNDERBOI TSAI.

Chicago: Disability Justice Training

July 18 & 25, in-person at The Plant & recorded

You are invited to a 2 part Disability Justice workshop, designed for and offered with love to our community in Chicago doing liberatory work! These two sessions are meant to help bring a deeper grounding in accessibility and Disability Justice to the events, protests, meetings, and workshops that you and your groups organize. We are also hoping to create the space and opportunity for folks to build and learn from each other.