Crip News v.145

Exile and Pride turns 25, new works, calls, and events.

Sep 03, 2024

Exile and Pride at 25

A cover of a book. Black and white. In the background, the fibrous twists and turns of a burl from a Douglas Fir in North Cascades National Park, Washington state. Over that, there are white words. EXILE AND PRIDE. Disability, Queerness, and Liberation. Eli Clare. With a foreword by Aurora Levins Morales. And an afterword by Dean Spade. — Cover image by **Danita Delimont / Alamy**.

Eli Clare’s transcendent contribution to disability culture is 25 years old. Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation was first published by South End Books in 1999, followed by a second edition in 2009 (the year it also won ForeWord’s Book of the Year Award), and was republished by Duke University Press in 2015.

The book’s combination of poetic beauty with activist hunger for justice makes it an enduring classic. Its study of ecological pain, anti-capitalist hope, gender, sexuality, class, and access remains essential today. It is also an important touchstone for disabled friendships, given how many of us reach for this book as we become politically disabled.

Happy birthday to a text that feels like home for those seeking refuge from ableism.

For excerpts and ways to get your copy, see Eli’s website.

New Works

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This past June, the “Afro-Futurist space-church” Brownton Abbey brought disabled queer artists of color to the Sistxrhood stage at the massive annual Glastonbury Festival. On September 14, the collective will give a workshop called “Futurescapes: Crafting Our Cosmic Community” at the ANTI- Contemporary Art Festival in Kuopio, Finland.

Video is available from the recent fully-virtual Branches program presented by Abilities Dance Boston, featuring choreography by Carmen Rizzo, Dara Capley, Lauren Sava, Louisa Mann, and Kate O’Day, that explores the personal and collective connections between climate change and disability justice.

CALLS

A Black trans disabled artist is closing their eyes and taking in the sun, against the green leaves of a tree. They are wearing gold hoop earring with a star in the middle and a red t-shirt.

A Philadelphia-based Black trans Disabled artist is in urgent need of funds for survival and stability. Donate here.

A flyer has a lot of text and two images of disabled and fat artists of color. PAID CREATIVE SANCTUARY FOR FAT & DISABLED BIPOC DANCERS. North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia Residents only! DM or Comment SANCTUARY for more information. Register by September 13.

Get Embodied Soul Movement (GEM) is hosting a PAID leadership and artistic development sanctuary to support North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia-based BIPOC, cultural, spiritual, and social dancers as they advance in their creative and professional work. Register by September 13 for gatherings that begin September 26. More here.

White text on a ground background with a white border. The text reads: Bed Zine Issue Four. Bed zine reflects the complex ways that disabled people relate to our beds, through a combination of art and writing. Call for submissions. Open until October 1st. — Design by **Mia Navarro**.

Bed Zine is seeking submissions for Issue Four. Submit by October 1. More here.
The Wynn Newhouse Awards for artists “of exceptional merit with a disability” are seeking recommendations for the next round of awards. More here.

EVENTS

A celestial background of purple, black, and turquoise features a montage of diverse people doing different activities: talking on a cell phone; working on a laptop; carrying a grocery bag; and putting up a window sign that says “Decarcerate NOW.” One person has a prosthetic leg. Patterns in the corners are looping waves of white lines. Text in similar looping cursive states: “We Keep Each Other Safe.” — Image by **Monica Trinidad** on **Justseeds**.

Understanding and Transforming the Medical Industrial Complex: Part One

Health Justice Commons is offering their Fall Political Ed Series 2024 that begins September 26. We must not allow current and rising fascism to dampen the magic and power of our imaginations. Now more than ever, we need just healthcare that truly cares for our bodies, communities, and the planet. This can only come to be by understanding the Medical Industrial Complex’s white supremacist, anti-Black, carceral and ableist roots, its ongoing, oppressive workings, and building our communities’ capacity to create alternatives. HJC’s Fall Political Ed Series offers the learning and the community space to incubate this understanding and capacity while nurturing new connections to build our power.