Crip News v.162
A short issue of new works. Happy Holidays!
hope you are finding rest and calm this holiday week. i’ve got lots of stuff to share with you in the dawn of 2025. for now, a short issue with some recent works.
-k
NEWS
New Works
Rachel Handlin, possibly the first artist with Down Syndrome to receive an MFA, was recently profiled in The New York Times after her solo show strangers are friends I haven’t met yet closed at White Columns (NYC) this past weekend.
emily sara / Cripple’s 504 font and a commissioned essay about the medical industrial complex are featured in An Incessant Unknowability: An Archive of Protest Inspired Typography and It’s Open Source Use, on view at ICA LA through March 2, 2025.
Preserving Disability: Disability and the Archival Profession edited by Dr. Gracen Brilmyer and Dr. Lydia Tang is out now from Litwin Books.
For (Un)Hidden, disabled writer Alex Green talks with Ryan Grant, an elementary school librarian in eastern Washington, about how he saved thousands of early 20th century disability records from being destroyed.
Italian artist Chiara Bersani recently performed several works at Modu Art Theater, Korea's first performance venue specifically designed for disability arts, in central Seoul.
Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund (DREDF) recently released “Equity for Whom? How Private Equity and the Punishment Bureaucracy Exploit Disabled People” by Bowen Cho.
Deloitte, the global consulting firm that takes billions in U.S. public funds to run faulty Medicaid determination processes, has released its first Disability Inclusion @ Work 2024, a report based on survey research from 10,000 respondents about workplace experiences.