Iโm soooo thrown off by the time change. Ugh.
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Iโm soooo thrown off by the time change. Ugh.
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Iโve just finished watching โSinnersโ again. I canโt say how many times Iโve seen it now. I can say itโs such a gift and Iโm literally in tears at this art. What a beautiful, brilliant invitation to cinema. Ryan Coogler, man. What a generational talent. Every thing & everyone gave their best here.
Been on a writing streak for days and hoping to get done so I can lean into break. But getting ahead of these deadlines is very important. Writing is easier now that I have the newest Bruno Mars album. I love love love it. Iโm also a long time member of the fan club.
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And it extends my traditional and written, academic journal published text, without the long wait time. This allows me to bring my scholarship to the public who may never read these texts.
Iโm grateful for community spaces and arts organizations that get this. Art doesnโt have to be gatekept.
This โnormativeโ gaze that often positions people with disabilities as spectacle or pity objects.
Patricia Leavyโsย Method Meets Artย talks about how arts-based research lets us ask questions through creative practice that written scholarship can't fully capture. This is my research & scholarship.
Among many things DJ (sins invalid,ย Skin, Tooth, and Bone) teaches: leadership by most impacted, intersectionality, collective liberation.This is what that looks like my practice. The subversive nature of my paintings โNuh Sweetโ & โInvitation to Dreamโ rebuke the โdisabled as inspirationโ.
Nuh Sweetโ is my paintings where the text based aspect are written in Caribbean Creole. There is no translation. Glissant called this "the right to opacity"โI don't owe you legibility. My disability positioning is Black and it is Caribbean, shaped by language and culture. This painting centers that.
bell hooks said inย Art on My Mind: Visual Politicsย that art has to be accessible to the communities it represents, not locked in elite spaces. Thatโs why Iโm showing new work at Fishers Arts Council in Marchโtheir disability awareness exhibition that's open to disabled artists & community.
Delroy Lindo has held firm to his goal: โI want to be respected for my work.โ He sat down with us to discuss his career, his characterโs pivotal monologue in "Sinners" and his Oscar nomination. nyti.ms/40wE7Nm
On a dark teal background, white text reads โBlack Futures Month,โ with yellow text in all caps reading โActivists Creating Black Disabled History Right Now Pt. 3โ below. Below is a circle picture of AJ Link, a bald Black man with a beard leaning against a wall by a window. He is wearing a short sleeve light blue button-down shirt with small red, white, and dark blue skulls patterned all over the shirt. Below is the Disability Culture Lab logo in white. At the top is a small repeating geometric graphic shape in black, red, and yellow, creating a colorful border. The same border is repeated at the bottom. In the bottom right corner is the page number (1)
On a dark teal background, white text reads โAJ Link (he/him).โ Above is a circle picture of AJ, a bald Black man with a beard leaning against a wall by a window. He is wearing a short sleeve light blue button-down shirt with small red, white, and dark blue skulls patterned all over the shirt. On either side of the picture are yellow framing sections. Below is AJโs bio in white text that reads โAJ is openly autistic. AJ currently works as the Director of Policy for New Disabled South and New Disabled South Rising.โ Below is the Disability Culture Lab logo in white. At the top is a small repeating geometric graphic shape in black, red, and yellow, creating a colorful border. The same border is repeated at the bottom. In the bottom right corner is the page number (2).
On a dark teal background is a circle picture of AJ Link, a bald Black man with a beard leaning against a wall by a window. He is wearing a short sleeve light blue button-down shirt with small red, white, and dark blue skulls patterned all over the shirt. To the right is text reading โAJ Link (he/him)โ and โQ: โWhat does Black disability liberation look like?โโ Below is the first part of AJโs answer in white text that reads โHonestly, weโre in a collective moment right now where itโs hard for me to dream about what liberation will be for Black disabled people. I think a lot about my elders and ancestors and how Iโm privileged enough to live a life that maybe they couldnโt have dreamed of themselves as they fought to make a future that is my present reality.โ Below is the Disability Culture Lab logo in white. At the top is a small repeating geometric graphic shape in black, red, and yellow, creating a colorful border. The same border is repeated at the bottom. In the bottom right corner is the page number (3).
On a dark teal background is a circle picture of AJ Link, a bald Black man with a beard leaning against a wall by a window. He is wearing a short sleeve light blue button-down shirt with small red, white, and dark blue skulls patterned all over the shirt. To the right is text reading โAJ Link (he/him)โ and โQ: โWhat does Black disability liberation look like?โโ Below is the second part of AJโs answer in white text that reads โAnd I also think about the hope of Reconstruction, followed by the despair of Jim Crow apartheid. And yet, weโre still here fighting for a better future. For me, this moment is not about hope, but rather determination. Iโm determined to fight for a future in which my Black disabled kin are free to decide for themselves what their own liberation looks like.โ Below is the Disability Culture Lab logo in white. At the top is a small repeating geometric graphic shape in black, red, and yellow, creating a colorful border. The same border is repeated at the bottom. In the bottom right corner is the page number (4).
Our third feature for Black Futures Month is AJ Link, Director of Policy for New Disabled South. Re: Black disability liberation, he describes his determination to fight for a better future for Black disabled kin, thinking about parallels between now and the Reconstruction and Jim Crow apartheid.
Been trying to stay offline because thereโs so much on my to do list and Iโm trying to avoid Paradise season 2 spoilers. Husband and I are finally getting to episode one! Leggggggggo!
All we can do, right? Care for ourselves and do the work we believe in. Happy Writing!
I said my piece and got off here to focus on writing and work because itโs incredibly frustrating. Exhausting.
This.
Watching, is in order. This is baffling. Lastly, anecdotally, why would the British film industry expect Lindo to ever openly run back to it, in his country of origin when thatโs the public reception (& lack of protection) he received last night?
Incredibly wild. Incorrect. Troubling. Incredulous. Please, for once and for all, understand that neurodivergence and itโs spectrum does not give way for racism, racially charged language and linguistic violence. A real and proper apology to all, Lindo & Jordan, those in attendance, & those
two met, fairly publicly last night. One protected group harming another protected group is never ok. As a scholar of disability & race and neurodivergence & race, there is incredible nuance in this case that is missing. But the immediate rush to call the Black people who were harmed, ableist is
The posturing and lack of nuance in this conversation about Tourette Syndrome and the racial slur shouted 3 separate times at last nights BAFTA awards is truly awful. Reminder: itโs not ableist to call this out. There is an intersection between race and disability and racism and ableism. And the
Black people with Tourette's don't get awards from royalty or biopics.
They don't even get proper treatment.
None of this game makes sense.
This is one of the fastest. Busiest. Shortest. Longest. Weeks. Ugh.
A couch in my office would be so wonderful.
The wildest thing this week. I know itโs only Tuesday, but I caught myself saying the same things my dissertation chair said to me, about and to my grad students. (It was all good though), but here I was all these years later. Iโm literally turning into my former faculty lol.
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No matter how I try to get into the Winter Olympics this year, I canโt. I guess Iโm counting down to summer 2028!
I was skeptical of this ASW format but they came out and played hard. I was entertained. Now my poor team has 4 days until they play again. ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ