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Stream Life After, new works, calls, events, and Disability Day of Mourning.

Feb 24, 2025

One more week to stream Life After

A quick reminder: you can rent Reid Davenport’s film Life After, winner of the US Documentary Special Jury Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, until Monday, March 3rd.
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NEWS

New Works

The cover of a book features a painting of a person’s head from the side, blending into a cross-section of a shell spiraling outward.

Refusing to Be Made Whole: Disability in Black Women's Writing by Anna LaQuawn Hinton is out now from University Press of Mississippi.
For Reframing Disability, journalist and researcher Priti Salian interviews Zainab Sanni, co-founder of News Verifier Africa, about her work to make fact-checking inclusive for Deaf people in Nigeria.
Nathan Tankus, author of an encyclopedic newsletter about economic policy, recently penned a beautiful tribute to his aunt Frieda Tankus. Frieda attended Camp Jened, fought to be the first wheelchair user to live in a dorm at NYU, and co-founded the organization Disabled In Action in 1970.
United States Artists recently published a conversation between interdisciplinary media artists Trisha Baga and Yo-Yo Lin about embodiment, endurance, and interdependence.

A quote says, What happens when being against abandonment is a baseline value?

Clean Air Club founder Emily Dupree recently interviewed Sunaura Taylor about her book Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert.

A square digital illustration is the cover image for a podcast called Conversation Pit. There are big bold letters that form the background, so big that they don’t fit. They start to spell out Cripple. In the center is a television screen that says, Enter our side of the story.

Cripple Productions has launched the Conversation Pit podcast. In the first episode, host Jam Joseph talks with Sid Marcos “to explore the intentions of the anti-ableist project and its intersection with arts and culture.”
Designer Olivia King recently spoke with Harry Bennett from It’s Nice That about her typeface Inclusive Sans, now on Google Fonts.
2wenty-5ive: Arts of Life 2000 – 2025 celebrated the Chicago-based progressive art studio’s 25th anniversary.
The Missing Billion Initiative recently published “Investing in Health Justice,” a report that “sheds light on the persistent underfunding of disability-inclusive health systems.”

CALLS

A queer, two-spirit, Indigenous, multiply disabled leader needs funds so they can recover from multiple surgeries, access critical ongoing care, and prevent housing instability. Donate here.
Rooted in Rights is looking for pitches for paid 500-word blog posts from disabled writers sharing their survival and perseverance strategies.
Sad Girls Club is seeking applications for new board members.
Queer Disability Aid and the Climate Resilience Advisory Network are collecting stories and personal experiences about extreme heat from queer and disabled people.
Making Space is seeking skilled disabled professionals to join various production crews across multiple TV and film projects in Los Angeles and Toronto.

EVENTS

Black Disability Activism Intergenerational Roundtable

Tuesday, Feb. 25, 7 - 8:30pm ET, on Zoom

The Spelman College Disability Leadership Coalition presents a roundtable conversation with Anita Cameron, Keith Jones, Paige Blake, and Tanell Vashawn Allen.

Black Disabled Leadership: Essential Yet Overlooked

Thursday, Feb. 27, 1 - 2pm ET, on Zoom

Racial equity is impossible without disability justice, rights, and inclusion. And with at least 1 in 4 Black people in the U.S. living with a disability, disability justice requires Black disabled leadership. As we witness rollbacks in both legislative protections and organizational commitments to DEI, racial justice, and disability inclusion, philanthropy must take action to fund Black disabled communities. Join us for a discussion with Black disabled leaders on how philanthropy can support Black disabled communities. Featuring Mel Brown and Britney Wilson, moderated by Patrick Cokley.

Pavar Snipe: Chronically Petty

Saturday, Mar. 1, 4pm ET, in-person at Caveat (NYC) and livestreamed

Presented by the 6th annual Black Women in Comedy Laff Fest and Limitless Laughs Productions, get ready to laugh until your sides ache at the uproarious one-woman comedy show starring the incomparable Pavar Snipe! The New York Emmy-nominated TV producer, writer, and actress is bringing her razor-sharp wit and delightfully sarcastic perspective to the stage in a show that’s as hilarious as it is heartwarming. Join her as she proves that sarcasm reigns supreme and pettiness is an art form. From her childhood antics to teenage trials and adult adventures, Pavar reveals the hilariously honest truths about living with a disability and her take on being a Black woman in America today.

Buffalo Sonnet: Launch Event for Audio Described Digital Comic

Buffalo Sonnet is a digital comic inspired by the historic San Juan Hill neighborhood, created by writer and illustrator Kamau Ware. In collaboration with the Social Audio Description Collective, Lincoln Center is excited to launch an audio described version of the work, designed for audiences who are blind or have low vision. Join us for a live virtual event to experience the full comic, scrolling with audio description, followed by a conversation with the artist and Nefertiti Matos Olivares and Thomas Reid, members of the Social Audio Description Collective, about the inspiration for the work, artistic process, and the practice of making comics accessible for people who are blind or have low vision.

Centering Community Voices to Improve Disability Research

Wednesday, Feb. 26, 3 - 4:45 p.m. ET, on Zoom

How can community engagement help guide and identify important research? Join the Urban Institute for a conversation on its impact, with a focus on research released last year about the barriers people with disabilities experienced when trying to access health care.

Bed-In: Disability-Led Rally

Saturday, Mar. 1, 1 - 6pm ET, on Zoom

Disability Community for Democracy, Inc. is proud to host a free virtual event featuring speakers and discussion panels on a range of topics, including disability rights, engagement in political campaigns, and better options for working adults with disabilities. The title 'Bed-In' is a nod to the famous 'Bed-Ins for Peace' held by John Lennon and Yoko Ono in the late 1960s, symbolizing our commitment to peaceful activism and advocacy.

Kinetic Light Lab Gathering featuring David Bobier from VibraFusionLab

Friday, Feb. 28, 2 - 4pm ET on Zoom

Join us for a virtual gathering focused on vibrotactile and multi-sensory artistic practice.

There’s a tilted horizon and thin lines that shoot out from a vanishing point like a sunset (the usual Crip News header) except the colors are inverted and it’s a black background with white lines, like nighttime. Big text floats over the land-line: INTENSITIES BELOW. Smaller text under: we could breathe, hold the breath and let it out slow, mist the plants, or notice a sensation, get water, leave the screen entirely, nap

Disability Day of Mourning

The Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) reports that over 542 people with disabilities have been murdered by their parents, relatives, or caregivers in the last 5 years.

On March 1, disability communities across the US gather to remember these disabled victims of filicide – disabled people murdered by their family members or caregivers.

ASAN has a list of vigils to attend, including an online event hosted by Sick in Quarters (SiQ) and PeoplesHub.

You can also access ASAN’s 2025 Anti-Filicide Toolkit “intended to provide advocates and allies with concrete tools and resources to use in their own communities, including in response to local incidents.”