NEWS
COVID Crisis of Social Rights
Beatrice Adler-Bolton offers a brief about the effects of changes to the CDC’s guidelines on risk and community transmission levels, coinciding with the end of some federal COVID funding. Despite being guaranteed by many laws in the U.S., the social rights of disabled people are being eroded in the impending BA.2 surge.
A group of sick and disabled queers in Chicago have penned an open letter to event and party planners holding events without mask requirements.
And pandemic medical innovations like telemedicine, drive-through testing sites, and remote work are steeped in ableist exclusions.
The Oscars
Troy Kotsur became the first Deaf man to win an acting Oscar and CODA took home the Best Picture award.
Finally, Web Access Guidelines
For the first time since 2003 and more than 3 decades since the passage of the ADA, the Department of Justice has finally issued guidance about web accessibility. In February, 181 disability organizations wrote to the Department about the urgent need for digital access guidelines.
Painting Burning Protest
Canadian artist Karla Pearce burned her artwork to protest the lack of increase in disability payments that enforce increasing precarities of disabled people in B.C.
New Works & Offerings
The pilot episode of DisLabeled, an irreverent exploration of disability culture from BRICTV, follows disability-centric design projects.
Mark Smith’s Making a Mark, about artistry and life with Down Syndrome, is starting a national tour in Ireland after selling out at Dublin Fringe.
This is Not a Body by Panteha Abareshi is on view at Hunter Shaw in L.A. through April 10th.
Grounding in Grief: Interrupting Overwhelm with Embodiment and Ritual is a new self-paced course from the Institute for the Development of Human Arts.
@QueeringPolyamory offers a series of posts on access & polyamory.
The Death Panel Reading Group is on Are.na.
EVENTS
The closing party for #CripRitual, a multi-sited and digital exhibition, will take place on Friday, April 1st from 4-6pm ET, featuring DJ Crip Time (Stefana Fratila), Margeaux Feldman, Khairani Barokka, and Sky Cubacub. See the participation guide.
The background is a red and orange watercolor graphic. On the top of the image is bold white sans serif text that reads “Atlas: Skin/Bone/Blood — Bodymaps in Brown and Black.” Below is regular white sans serif text that reads, “A panel discussion and poetry reading on the intersections of latinidad and disability / Tuesday, March 29, 6:00 PM EDT.” Below the date/time are five square photos of the speakers: heidi andrea restrepo rhodes, Naomi Ortiz, Jimena Lucero, Diannely Antigua, and Aurora Levins Morales. Below the photos is the text, “Closed captioning will be provided. / More info: writer.org/atlas. In the lower righthand corner is The Writer’s Center logo.
Light blue background with a medium blue square and a photo of Talila “TL” Lewis, a Black person with short cropped hair, glasses, a white shirt, and black blazer. Bold gold text at the top says “Talila ‘TL’ Lewis,” and Abolition & Disability Justice, Thurs March 31, 3:30-5:00pm CST, RSVP: https://go.uic.edu/DisabilityJustice in blue, purple, and gold text. In the lower left are logos for the UIC Disability Cultural Center and the UIC African American Cultural Center, and in the lower right is purple text with the co-sponsors, the Chicagoland Disabled People of Color Coalition and National Black Deaf Advocates.
3Arts/Bodies of Work Residency Fellow Antonio Davis & Justin Cooper will be in conversation about Black Disabled Artists’ Perspectives on Art and Advocacy on Wednesday, March 30th from 6:00-7:30pm CT on Zoom. Register here.
Johanna Hedva will perform at punctum in Prague on Wednesday, March 30th from 19:30 — 22:30 CET. More info here.
Disability Arts—Where Law, Politics, and Culture Meet featuring Simi Linton, Francisco echo Eraso, and Park McArthur on Tuesday, March 29th from 12:15-1pm ET on Zoom. More info here.
Inside a pink circle, a quote by Julia Watts Belser: “Care is the practice of tending need and desire.”