Calling Up Justice recommends the Social Audio Descriptive Collective for expertise in visual descriptions. Audio description, or more precisely visual description, is a form of narration used to provide information surrounding key visual elements in a media or live work for the benefit of consumers who are accessing by sight. This includes blind and visually impaired participants.
crip doula: a term created by disability justice organizer Stacey Park Milbern to describe the ways disabled people support/mentor newly disabled people in learning disabled skills (how to live on very low spoons, drive a wheelchair, have sex/redefine sexuality, etc.) A doula supports someone doing the work of childbirth; a crip doula is a dis-abled person supporting another disabled person as they do the work of becoming disabled, or differently disabled, of dreaming a new dis-abled life/world into being.
Calling Up Justice uses the term “crip” as a reclaiming and liberating terminology. We also recognize the different feeling and relationships people have with this terminology. It is utilized in different ways depending on context and community. We created this resource for greater group understanding.
Calling Up seeks an Assistant to the Executive Producer (Remote) “If you have come to help me you are wasting your time, but if you
CripCreate is a weekly online co-working space by and for all Deaf and Disabled people. This Disability Justice centered co-working space for all Disabled (sick, Disabled, Mad/mentally ill, Deaf, Hard of Hearing, low vision/blind, neurodiverse, or otherwise chronically ill) people prioritizes a safe space for all participants. We are defining Community Guidelines as boundaries for how people are expected to behave in our spaces.
Masks for Crips was a mutual aid project that centered the Chicago disability community. Alison Kopit and Chun-shan (Sandie) Yi began the project at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and it ran from March 2020 through July 2020.
Visual description is a verbal description of visual elements in a piece of media, such as a movie, television show, or artwork, that is provided for the benefit of people who are blind or have low vision. The purpose of visual description is to allow people with visual impairments to understand and appreciate the visual aspects of the media, as they would not be able to see them otherwise.
oin our Decentralized content house as a publisher! Primary duties are posting updates and invitations to the website, blogspace, social media channels, and email lists. Ideate on strategies to combat racist algorhymic suppression and organizing across different platforms. Create accessible communications that connect the people, the artists, and movements. As Toni Cade Bambara said “The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible”. Join us in making decolonization, anti-racism, disabled justice and liberatory practice irresistible!
“If you have come to help me you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine
March 16, 2020 Reflections on my speaking at Artists In a Time of Global Pandemic via Howlround: For US-Based Freelance Artists and Cultural Workers in