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Scholar-Curator of Disability Art Ph.D. | Crip Curator Indisposable.net disabilityjusticeart.com

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So, please join us to think and work across this wave of pleasure and grief, and most importantly, to exist in solidarity as we continue to build the communities to fight and resist forces that would seek to deprive us of our pleasure and our power.

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But, that is of course part of the message, that queer, crip, and Black Joy and pleasure are not in opposition to grief or rage or mourning, but deeply connected. This connection is beautifully underscored by the profound work of Jennifer Bastian, whose exhibition β€œGrief Wave” will be shown in an

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in 2020 when Ann Fox and I co-curated the Indisposable project for the Ford Foundation Gallery. I’m thrilled that this collaboration has continued and that the power of queer, crip, and Black Joy; and the art of pleasure activism has a public platform especially during this time of collective grief

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I am so honored to have collaborated with the incredible Sami Schalk and Sam Waldron to help curate and organize β€œPleasure is Power: The Pleasure Art of Sami Schalk and Sam Waldron,” opening tomorrow, January 24, at the Art Lit Lab (ALL) in Madison, WI.
I began working with Sam and Sami back in

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Wide angle photo of visitors to the opening night celebration of The Art of Disability Justice Now. Hundreds of people gathered and wearing masks in the hall of the Mill City Museum

Wide angle photo of visitors to the opening night celebration of The Art of Disability Justice Now. Hundreds of people gathered and wearing masks in the hall of the Mill City Museum

β€œThe Art of Disability Justice Now” at The Mill City Museum. To take the principles of the Disability Justice movement seriously, curatorial methods must shift to not just being community-advised, but truly community-curated where the community forms the curatorial committee that makes the decisions

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