your rare tuesday issue! and a quick one. sending y’all peaceful vibes for the start of summer.
-kevin
NEWS
New Works
Leroy Moore is offering a new workshop/presentation, "Krip-Hop Nation reclaims Disability Justice, which puts “Disability Justice into the Black experience going back to the Black Arts Movement, the Black Power Movement and comparing those two with the work of Krip-Hop Nation and Sins Invalid.” Those interested should email Blackkrip@gmail.com.
Scholars Ashley Shew, Elizabeth McLain, and Kereshmeh Afsari at Virginia Tech have received $502,000 from the Mellon Foundation for a 3-year project called “Just Dis Tech,” which will bring “the principles of disability justice to Appalachia through educational workshops, cultural events, and technology research.”
//Tuning In//, “a production that explores the destructive nature of disability prejudice and the damage caused by trying to fit in,” recently showed at The Lowry in Manchester, U.K.
CALLS
Creative Wildfire is a 10-month program for “seven artists and storytellers to create new projects inspired by hidden histories of resistance.” Deadline is today!
Intro to Anticapitalism for Artists is a 10-week program “for artists who feel that capitalism as a system is a problem and want to learn more about why that is and what they can do about it.” Application closes June 1.
EVENTS
Practice Progress UNtensive 2023
June 15 - 18, on Zoom
Featuring guest artists Andrew Suseno, Irvin Manuel Gonzalez, Alfonso Cervera, Zahna Simon, Antoine Hunter aka Purple Fire Crow, and Alice Sheppard. The Summer UNtensive is a 4-day virtual gathering for body-based artists, students, and teachers offering embodied anti-racist creative practice. With three intertwining streams: Embodied Anti-Racist Practice, Pedagogy For Change, and Creating Worlds, participants can craft their own learning experience including race-based affinity spaces, syllabus workshops, movement practice and more.
Debt Ceiling Negotiations
The efforts to avoid the U.S.’s default on its debt, the White House and Republican leadership of the House have announced they’ve reached a tentative deal. In the coming weeks, we’ll report on the effects on so-called social safety net programs that many disabled people use to survive.
Now is the time to check out the “Advocacy Guide for Debt Ceiling Negotiations,” from The Autism Society and the Association of University Centers on Disabilities.
Remembering Jordan Neely
Ola Ojewumi and Carlean Ponder recently penned an essay that puts Jordan Neely’s murder into the larger context of the criminalization of Black disabled people in the U.S.