Crip News v.76
This Wednesday, April 5th, is the anniversary of the first day of the 504 protests. Thanks for being here.
NEWS
Stella Young in Bronze
The Australian artist, organizer, and journalist who offered us language for resisting “inspiration” as a dominant mode of disability, died in 2014. Last week, a statue of Young funded by a Victoria women’s public art program was unveiled in Cato Park at Stawell in western Victoria.
New Works
Edges of Sign Language by Christine Sun Kim is open at London’s Somerset House through May 21st.
In The Nation, Fiona Lowenstein and Ryan Prior profile “The Long Covid Revolution.”
Also in The Nation, Marie Myung-Ok Lee offers an account of the intensity of her parent advocacy that is required to keep her son Jason safe.
All My Relations, Volume 4 looks at disability and accessibility, featuring works by Emily Fritts, Frances Bukovsky, Izzy Singer, Sam Wise, Julie Bortolussi, Lev Raphael, Isabella J Mansfield, Krista Bergren-Walsh, Maeva Wunn, and Robin Kinzer.
The actors in the “disability-affirmative” Phamaly Theater Company’s production of Spring Awakening in Northglenn Arts in Colorado worked with intimacy director Samantha Egle to connect access from rehearsal to performance.
Blind disability activist Mahretta “Retta” Maha profiles blind disability activist Rina Prasarani, also based in Jakarta, Indonesia, for The Disability Justice Project.
In Other News…
The Social Security Administration has proposed removing food calculations from the “in-kind support and maintenance” (ISM) rule. This means people who receive SSI will not have their support reduced if friends or family help them buy groceries. Tell the SSA to eliminate ISM entirely!
The US Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision affirming the rights of disabled students to sue their public schools for violations of federal anti-discrimination statutes and collect compensatory damages before exhausting every possible remedy under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
The US Supreme Court also recently agreed to consider whether to curtail lawsuits over hotel/lodging inaccessibility.
Last week on Trans Day of Visibility, many organizers named the connections between trans and disability experiences, including data that show that trans people have the highest rates of long COVID (46% in one study), with the rate of severe symptoms at more than four times that of cis people.
Intellectual and developmental disability (IDD) nonprofits Merakey and Elwyn recently signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding to create a $1 billion joint company with a 12,000-person workforce caring for 55,000 individuals in 16 states.
CALLS
NYSCA/NYFA Artists with Disabilities Grant distribute $1,000 to New York State artists with a disability who have experienced financial hardship due to the COVID-19 crisis (now open to NYC artists). Applications open April 4 and close June 6. More here.
Applications are open for AXIS Dance’s Summer Intensive and Teacher Training taking place July 24 - 28. Apply by April 12. More here.
2023/24 BRIClab applications are open through May 8th. The multidisciplinary residency program for Brooklyn-based artists advances opportunities for emerging to mid-career visual artists, performers, and media makers, with tracks in Contemporary Art, Performing Arts, Video Art, and Film + TV. More here.
The Disability Collective is seeking members for its Board of Directors.
Proposals are open for the New York Public Library’s Accessible Technology Conference 2023 taking place in October. More here.
EVENTS
Lupus as an Operating System
Monday, April 10th, 6 - 7:30pm ET, on Zoom
Poet Cyrée Jarelle Johnson explores the way anti-Blackness, trauma, and environmental degradation converge to create bodies that internalize overcorrection, resulting in disablement, debility, and disability. Viewing systemic disabilities through the lens of cyborg studies, Johnson uses their background in library and information science to consider the role overcorrection and planned obsolescence play in contemporary American culture. Correction* is structured as an open curriculum led by The New School’s Vera List Center faculty and staff.
Disabled Freedom Portals by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Wednesday, April 12, 5 - 6:30pm ET, on Zoom
We live in fascist times, in eugenic times, in times of concentrated attacks on bodility and land autonomy. And yet, these are the times we have. In the Fordham Distinguished Lecture on Disability, writer and disability justice organizer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha will speak about what time it is on the clock of the world, and the possibilities for disability justice lead resistance and transformation.
Audio Description for Dance
Monday, April 14 - Friday, April 14, in-person in Austin, TX
From April 10-14, 2023, Art Spark Texas is presenting an opportunity to participate in a 5-day professional training for Audio Describers with Gravity Access Services.
On a black background is a vertical poster graphic in red and grey for an upcoming online event. Titled ‘Crip Artist Meet-Up’ the text is white in bold typography and placed towards the middle left. The accompanying text in varying colors on the poster reads, “A space for artists and designers navigating disability and illness to gather and learn about eachother’s practices. (we are out there) Come with questions, ideas or intentions about navigating life as an artist, ableist funding applications, and whatever you want to know or share. We may not have all the answers, but through the Crip traditions of resource sharing we aim to produce new knowledge together.”
The event is scheduled on the sixth of April at 1900 CET. Graphical shapes are arranged to resemble a flower with petals and leaves in a linear elongated form on the right side of the poster. This is overlaid over an array of dots. The background is stylised as to resemble a curved horizon surface. On the bottom of the poster are a couple of logos, starting from the left with the CTC logo, then the instagram handle of @CripTheCurriculum in the middle and finally the logo of Extra Intra.
Hi there, Kevin. Could you post about Dis/Rep 2023: Holding Us Together? It’s a six Sunday series starting April 23. Registration and more information at: DisRepWorkshop.org