NEWS
“Stop the War in Ukraine”
Read a statement of support for disabled people in Ukraine by disability scholars.
New Works
Disability Justice: An Audit Tool is “aimed at helping Black, Indigenous and POC-led organizations (that are not primarily focused around disability) examine where they’re at in practicing disability justice, and where they want to learn and grow.” Download it here.
Lorina Bulwer by Dolly Sen is out. It’s a “polemical exploration of madness, material, and the life of Lorina Bulwer - a needleworker incarcerated in the ‘female lunatic ward’ of great yarmouth workhouse from 1893 to 1912.” Buy it here.
Care Manual: Dreaming Care Into Being by kamra sadia hakim is “part pedagogy and part archive of lived experience.” Pre-order it here.
Recessed from Heidi Latsky and Maya Man - “a collaboration featuring seven performers’ solo movements embedded in a custom-coded web installation” - is available through March 31st.
A new episode of the RadioLab podcast features Deafblind artist Elsa Sjunneson’s reckonings with the legacies of one of the most famous disabled people in the U.S., Helen Keller. Braille-ready transcript file here!
Deaf Brown American Mom by Fran Ledonio Flaherty is open at SPACE Gallery in Pittsburgh through May 15th.
Crip Ecologies: Vulnerable Bodies in a Toxic Landscape is up at the Art Gallery of Windsor, featuring Panteha Abareshi, Ezra Benus, Hayley Cranberry-Small, Alex Dolores Salerno, Sharona Franklin, Yo-Yo Lin, Logan MacDonald, Carly Mandel, Sunaura Taylor, and RA Walden, curated by Amanda Cachia. Through May 22.
“Prolonged Grief” Added to DSM-5
Reporting Disability
The inaugural Disability Reporting Fellow at the New York Times, Amanda Morris, shares some insights about the ways care practices can lead solid journalism. We should expect the announcement of the next disability-focused Fellow soon.
On the Federal Level
For an entire year now, federal-state bureaucratic messes are holding up billions of dollars in urgently needed Medicaid funding that would help stabilize home and community-based services.
The White House’s plans to address COVID safety for disabled people are woefully inadequate as we brace for the effects of the BA.2 variant.
As the mid-term elections get closer, organizers are sounding the alarm about the voting inaccessibilities. An open-source app for at-home voting called Mark.It is may be ready soon.
A new long-read from the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund lays out the legal basis for community integration, which also explains the symbiosis of abolition and disability organizing.
Los Angeles Community College District will not appeal a case that would have asked the Supreme Court to decide the status of “unintentional discrimination” under the ADA. Direct action protests work!
A $14.5 billion increase in support for “special education” is part of the spending bill that funds the government through September.
New York Artists: Money + Jobs!
Applications for Creatives Rebuild New York’s Guaranteed Income for Artists and Artist Employment programs are due THIS WEEK, Friday, March 25th at 11:59 PM ET. Guidelines are available in eleven languages. Visit https://www.creativesrebuildny.org/apply/ to learn more.
Alt-Text on Twitter
Private Equity Predatory Investments
A new report shows a deeply troubling portrait of private equity investments in the so-called “Troubled Teen Industry” and the many forms of harm that come with it.
CALLS
Alt-Text Selfies
A new project from Bojana Coklyat, Shannon Finnegan, and Olivia Dreisinger will “celebrate, collect, and publish alt-text selfies—the image descriptions that accompany self-portraits posted online” in a chapbook and an online archive. Artists selected for the chapbook will receive a $100 honorarium. Submit by April 13th at midnight Pacific time.
Postcards from Flaresville
A sepiawhite woman lies on a bed watching tv. The screen is in full colour featuring six white women in bathing suits smiling and holding hands as they walk along the beach. The walls of the room are green, patterned with black, outside a window shows a bright sunny day. In yellow curly font, the words Postcards from Flaresville can be seen. The Resting Up Collective is creating a mail-based chain of sick pen pals. Sign up here.
Visual AIDS
Visual AIDS announces a new fellowship program to support original writing and scholarship about artists who have been lost to AIDS. Applications due April 11th.
EVENTS
A celebration for the launch of Dennis Tyler’s new book titled Disabilities of the Color Line: Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the Present on Thursday, March 24, 2022 5:30-6:15pm ET. Register here.
Inside the Questions: The Purpose of Disability with Dustin Gibson and Elena House-Hay on Thursday, March 24th from 7-8pm ET. Register here.
Mad Blackness*: Rage, Resistance, Refusal featuring La Marr Jurelle Bruce, Kelly Baker Josephs, Théri Pickens, and JT Roane, moderated by Kaiama L. Glover on Tuesday, March 22nd from 6:30-8pm ET. Register here.
A sensory friendly performance of The Chinese Lady will take place this Saturday March 26 at 2pm at The Public Theater (425 Lafayette Street in Manhattan). Click here to access a ticket guide with more information about the show and how to purchase tickets.
Hi, Kevin. From April 10 to May 22, the Dis/Rep team is starting a free six week workshop on liberating words used within the Disabled and Racial Justice movements. It will be led by Claudia Alick, Rebel Sidney Fayola Black Burnett, Grant Miller, and Jonathan Paradox Lee. Registration and more info at: https://thecuriosityparadox.com/disrep2022