VISIBILITYtalks

07/29/2022

Surprise 🎉 Our latest episode with is posted!! LINK IN BIO

06/23/2021

SUPPORT DISABILITY SERVICE WORKERS in demanding higher wages, quality training, and the inclusion of disabled people!!! Disability service workers deserve at least $15/hr and comprehensive training - LINK TO PETITION:

https://www.coworker.org/petitions/disability-care-workers-demand-oversight-agency-enforces-better-work-standards

Image ID #1: Image ID: In bold red text reads “Philadelphia Care Workers United” I’m gray text underneath that reads “ sing this petition in solidarity with workers in disability services as they demand higher wages, quality training , and the inclusion of disabled people.

Image ID #2: Image ID: A black background with a circular vignette in the center. Arching around the top of the vignette against the black is red text reading “Care Work” and around the bottom “is not disposable”. Within the vignette are three people: on the left is a pink person in a red long sleeve shirt reaching across and holding the hand of the person in the middle. In the middle is a red person in a mustard yellow long sleeve shirt. On the right is a green person in a blue long sleeve shirt, their hand is on the shoulder of the person in the middle. The entire image within the vignette is rendered to look glitched out, streaking and zig-zagging the image with white and gray.

04/30/2021

Episode 2 is on Facebook! Check out the link below on ThINKingDANCE

04/30/2021

The first two episodes have hit Facebook! Give them a watch over on ThINKingDANCE page!

04/23/2021

This week is World Primary Immunodeficiency Week! Check out WorldPIWeek.org to learn more!

04/22/2021

Happy Earth Day! Environmental Justice is very important to the effort towards stopping Global Climate Change, but it’s important to remember who is most affected by climate change and natural disasters!

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Slide 1: Environmental Social Justice, You can't have one without the other.

Slide 2: Some Facts for Earth Day.

Minority groups, including those on the Disability Spectrum are disproportionately affected by Global Climate Change.

On average, people of color comprise 56% of the population living in neighborhoods with environmentally destructive facilities, compared to 30% elsewhere.

Slide 3: Pollution and unsafe jobs in environmentally destructive industries can cause permanent disabilities, but policies to mitigate the impacts of environmental degradation frequently fail to consider Disability Rights.

With an increase in natural disasters due to climate change, those with disabilities are more likely to have difficulties during required evacuations or migrations.

Slide 4: Compromised health makes disabled people more vulnerable to extreme climate events, ecosystem services loss, or infectious diseases.

Due to these long-standing inequalities in living, working, health, and social conditions, minorities in the U.S. are 4-5 times more likely to be hospitalized from COVID-19 than non-Hispanic white persons.

Slide 5: Sources. (Please DM for links to sources)]

04/19/2021

"...I don't think that a lot
of us think of foolishness as a means to access...but it is. And it can be." -Wit López

Watch the newest episode now on Youtube!

VISIBILITYtalks is a bimonthly video series created in collaboration with Philadelphia-area artists on the Disability and Chronic Illness Spectrums. Each mon...

04/14/2021

Check out the newest episode of VISIBILITYtalks below!

VISIBILITYtalks is a bimonthly video series created in collaboration with Philadelphia-area artists on the Disability and Chronic Illness Spectrums. Each mon...

04/13/2021

Our second episode is up! Go watch Wit López - award-winning multidisciplinary maker, performance artist, writer, and cultural advocate - talk their work and life!

https://youtu.be/lRodQ4CJ6DI

03/29/2021

VISIBILITYtalks is a video series funded with support from the Leeway Foundation and created in collaboration with artists on the Disability Spectrum. I collaborate with individuals or groups for two months at a time to produce a video that represents…

03/28/2021

It’s time to announce our next artist... ! Wit López is an award-winning multidisciplinary maker, performance artist, writer, and cultural advocate based in Philadelphia, PA. Their work explores race, gender, sexuality, and class at the intersection of disability justice, while using absurdity and Black Absurdism as tools for resistance. Wit is currently an Activist-Curator Fellow for the Chronicling Resistance project at the Free Library of Philadelphia.

Photo credit:
[ID: photo 1 - a collage of gold, green, and purple textiles with Wit edited into the center of the collage. photo 2 - a collage of blue and teal textiles with four headshots of wit making different faces] @ Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

03/24/2021

Check out the article on ThINKingDANCE about first episode of VISIBILITYtalks!

VISIBILITYtalks is a video series funded with support from the Leeway Foundation and created in collaboration with artists on the Disability Spectrum. I collaborate with individuals or groups for two months at a time to produce a video that represents…