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NEWS
Crip Rave Love
Tkaronto-based nightlife collective Crip Rave was profiled by Zoë Beery for Resident Advisor. The essay describes the beautiful access ecologies cultivated by organizers Stefana Fratila and Renee Dumaresque, including many techniques that could expand the transformative possibilities for nightlife spaces everywhere.
New DJ Resource Guide
An Instagram post by @CreatingFreedomMovements shows a pink background with graphic of various disabled folks. Text reads “Disability Justice Resource Directory. free access + download at linktr.ee/CreatingFreedomMovements. LIVE NOW!”
Canada Disability Benefit Bill
Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion Carla Qualtrough has re-introduced a bill that is aimed at reducing financial instability for disabled people.
Ableism for Football Fans
A survey conducted by an organization called Level Playing Field into the away matchday experience for disabled fans in Wales and England highlights the multi-layered experiences of ableism in football culture.
Campus Access
Student journalists at the University of Maryland recently published a 6-part series about inaccessibility and disabled students experiences on campus. Washington Post columnist Theresa Vargas boosted their work in a call to other college newspapers.
CALLS
Atlas: Skin/Bone/Blood Bodymaps in Brown and Black, A Disabled Latinx Folio
Letras Latinas and Apogee Journal invite disabled latinx poets to submit poems for consideration for a special folio edited by heidi andrea restrepo rhodes. Submit by June 30th. See the full call here.
Day With(out) Art 2023
Visual AIDS invites artists and filmmakers to submit proposals for new video works responding to the ongoing HIV and AIDS Crisis. Videos will premiere on December 1, 2023 at over 100 venues worldwide as part of Day With(out) Art / World AIDS Day. Apply by July 5th. See the full call here.
2022-23 Heumann-Armstrong Award Application
Applicants must be students with disabilities in the 6th grade or higher, including higher education, and must be willing to be interviewed on video about their experience with disability and ableism in education. Apply by July 22nd. See the application here.
Health Justice Commons Summer Sustainer Call-In
Contributions will sustain organizers’ work to disrupt the MIC and to incubate community-led alternatives, the Radical Telehealth Collective (RTC), HJC’s mutual aid project, enable our disability justice-centered political education to thrive, and affirm and make possible our Language Justice capacity-building work. Contribute here.
Coordinator of Civic Programs & Engagement at The Shed
The Coordinator of Civic Programs & Engagement advances The Shed’s civic purpose and engagement strategy and initiatives, providing administrative, logistical, and operational support to cultivate and deepen relationships with local residents, community stakeholders, agencies, school officials, community-based organizations, and others in the neighborhood and throughout the city; administers education and youth development programs in partnership with organizations throughout the five boroughs; and executes socially-engaged cultural programming, as needed. More info here.
EVENTS
Jerron Herman and Molly Joyce: Left and Right with an opening set by Tiffany Rea-Fisher
A part of the The Future Is… Festival: Featuring contributions from Brandon Kazen-Maddox, Max Greyson and Austin Regan with an opening performance by Tiffany Rea-Fisher and a talkback with Kevin Gotkin. Thursday, June 9th at 7:30pm ET (doors at 6:30pm ET) at National Sawdust (Brooklyn). Tickets here.
Living Altars: Disabled QTBIPOC Writers Transforming Pandemic Grief
Featuring Meliza Bañales aka Missy Fuego, Stefani Echeverría-Fenn, Juba Kalamka, Naima Lowe, Lucia Leandro "LL" Gimeno, Stacey Park Milbern, and curated by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. In year three of the triple pandemic, what do we do with all this grief? Disabled queer and trans BIPOC know. Come bring your heart, your loss, your longing for a free future to witness legendary disabled QTBIPOC writers- living and dead- share work about the real deal of these years, our grief, our survival and the futures we’re dreaming despite and because of everything. Wednesday, June 15th at 7pm PT. Tickets here.
Dark Room Ballet Classes & Workshops
Introductory Classes for Blind and Visually Impaired Students are suitable for people with no prior knowledge of ballet. This repeating series of eight classes introduces students to the most common ballet vocabulary that they would need to know in order to participate in Open Level Dark Room Ballet Class. Classes take place each Saturday online via the Zoom platform; there is also the option to call in via phone. Starting June 25th. Register here.
Anatomy in Detail: The Gluteus Complex (Butt Class) will take place on Saturday, June 11th from 4-5:30pm ET. And Voices from the Dark Room: The Multitude of Audio Descriptions and When to Touch Them will take place on Saturday, June 18th from 4-5:30pm ET. More info here.
Radical Joy Ball with ADAPT
The Radical Joy Ball celebrates the pride of self-expression. At this event we will highlight disability and LGBTQ+ pride. We recognize, honor, and celebrate those within our community who are LGBTQ+, BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color), and living with a disability. Thurs, June 9, 2022 from 5-6pm ET at The Whitney Museum. Tickets here.
Community Transformative Justice Training
An Instagram post by @AAPIWomenLead: An image of Mia Mingus. Text that says 'Save The Date! COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE TRAINING MUTUAL-AID FUNDRAISER / MIA MINGUS / SOIL: A TRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE PROJECT / June 16, 2022 / 8:00AM HT / 12:00PM PT / 2:00PM CT / 3:00PM ET / RSVP Required / Free, Sliding Scale, and Community Group Tickets / Symbols for ASL and closed captioning and the AAPI Women Lead logo.
The Psychiatric Survivor Clinic
An Instagram post by @ProjectLETS: Image art contains many black speech bubbles on a cream colored notebook paper smeared with ink. One of the speech bubbles has a photo of an eye. A 6-session community care, skill-sharing, and healing space — with small identity & experience based affinity groups. We have closed cohort & open drop-in options. Starting in June 2022! 🌿 Register here.