Part of RantWoman's #NDEAM #PedestrianSafetyMonth LGBTQ history, bulying prevention, Domestic Violence Awareness Breast cancer Awareness #HealthLiteracy and a couple other things RantWoman is losing track of even as she attempts ruthlessly to document all the strands of awareness the country is perhaps swimming in.
RantWoman has mostly given up writing things in her glorious two pages per week with horizontal spaces for schedule items paper calendar. RantWoman has also gotten spoiled about things that come in email and can be entered automatically in RantWoman's online calendar. So RantWoman neglect to write anywhere an event she meant to go to. But the sponsor definitely goes on RantWoman's mean to check out list and RantWoman imagines others might want to check Longmore out too.
RantWoman is posting with minimal comment. What do readers notice about branding? What do readers notice about accessibility #A11y measures reflected in the links and the presentation?
Plus, note some upcoming dates which MAYBE RantWoman will get her act together to participate in!
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| The Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability |
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Huge thanks to those of you who joined us for all or part of Superfest 2020, which will go down in legend as an unconventional but no less groundbreaking event. In the midst of a pandemic, a tense election, and uncertainty near and far, we’re genuinely grateful that so many of you considered Superfest a welcome distraction and even a balm.
A day or two before each festival’s launch, Superfest staff joke with each other (nervously): remember the year when the elevator at the BART station broke down? Or the one where they painted the wall with toxic paint odors just hours before people were to arrive? Or the popcorn machine that shorted the building's power an hour before the program started? 2020 would be a snap, all online after hours of pre-checks, checks, re-checks, right? But as the most resourceful disabled people know, things, people, systems, ghosts, all have something to contribute, and this year was no exception. But as people with disabilities also know, here is where years of building partnerships and community are key; this year, we our deeply indebted to Senior Disability Action who offered their webinar account to us for our second stream to help the show go on. Was Superfest #34 perfect? Nope. Was it disability frustrations and joys through and through? Yep.
And is there more to learn from our small staff’s first attempt running a small online event that we strove to make accessible for people around the corner and around the world? Absolutely! That’s why, if you joined us for any part of the program this year, please fill out this survey. It’s our main way to hear from you about what worked and what we can do better, especially at a time when social distancing has put the kibosh on eavesdropping!
If you missed any of our panels, videos are coming soon, once we can polish up the captions.
Again, heartfelt thanks to everyone who joined us! We wish you the very best in these challenging times, and hope that Superfest brought a ray of sunshine — your virtual presence sure did for us. Stay safe, hang in there, and stay tuned for our future events.
In solidarity,
Cathy Kudlick and Emily Beitiks
Co-Directors of Superfest |
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Disability Art & Culture This Month? |
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On October 23rd-25th, Sins Invalid is hosting a virtual show featuring performances and Q & A sessions, "We Love Like Barnacles: Crip Lives in Climate Chaos."
Holding space for love, mourning, and community healing in pandemic times, Sins Invalid brings forth a performance that centers our communities in the throes of climate chaos and our agonized planet. From the storms battering our shores to the raging fires threatening our homes, the social, political, and economic disparities faced by disabled queer and trans people of color put our communities at the frontlines of ecological disaster.
With the pandemic laying bare the inequalities and injustices that continue to exist in our current oppressive systems, now more than ever is the time to listen to crip wisdom in the age of climate chaos. Join them as they speak their truths on stage.
For tickets, click the link below. |
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November 7, 4 pm Pacific/ 7pm Eastern Join us for a conversation about disability justice with Patty Berne, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong; moderated by Yomi Wrong. Patty and Leah are contributors in Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, a new anthology edited by Alice.
This webinar is co-organized by the Disability Visibility Project and the Longmore Institute on Disability. Yomi Wrong is an Oakland-based consultant, activist and disability justice dreamer who formerly served as Executive Director of the Center for Independent Living. She currently works in healthcare compliance, where her role is to advance quality medical care for people with disabilities. Patty Berne is a Co-Founder, Executive and Artistic Director of Sins Invalid, a disability justice based performance project centralizing disabled artists of color and queer and gender non-conforming artists with disabilities. Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer disabled autistic nonbinary femme writer and disability/transformative justice worker, a descendent of many gardeners, psychics, teachers, border jumpers, people with a hustle, queer cousins and weirdo/neurodivergent people. 10 lucky participants will win a free copy of the book! ASL/captioning provided. |
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