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Crip TimesCrip Times Episode 10: The Ryan O’Connell EpisodeEpisode Notes
It’s the season finale of Crip Times! Buckle up for lots of LOLs and too many puns. This week, Kayla, Kristina, and Andrew are joined by Ryan O’Connell, creator, writer, and star of Netflix’s Special. He’s done other stuff too but ughhh, who cares?
We talk about cerebral palsy, the power of authentic disability representation, pushing the envelope of gay and disabled sexuality on screen, pandemic challenges specific to disabled people, and the ‘well-meaning’ ableism that can show up when we’re just trying to live our lives.
We move into...2021-02-181h 18Crip TimesCrip Times Episode 9: The Jenna Reid EpisodeEpisode Notes
On this episode, Kayla and Kristina are joined by Jenna Reid for a conversation that feels like a bolt of energy to our weary pandemic souls. Jenna speaks about Mad Movements, their histories, their teachings, and how embracing Madness can support the goal of abolition. We discuss the role of Madness in bringing an ethic of care to academia, the (in)accessibility of online activism, and the politics of working from bed.
Jenna speaks about her art practice, emphasizing the need to embrace slowness into not just our society, but also our own...2021-02-0252 minCrip TimesCrip Times Episode 8: The Shannon Finnegan EpisodeEpisode Notes
Have you ever thought of alt-text as poetry? What about lounging as a form of protest? This week, Kayla and Kristina are joined by Shannon Finnegan, a multidisciplinary artist making work about accessibility and disability culture. The conversation begins with Shannon sharing the importance of centering other disabled artists and thinkers in their work, and how interdependence can be an aesthetic approach.
We speak about the presence (or absence) of alt text in institutions and our personal practices, with a focus on Shannon’s “Alt Text as Poetry” project, how embracing their own access...2021-01-191h 00Crip TimesCrip Times Episode 7: The Gloria C. Swain EpisodeEpisode Notes
Welcome back to Crip Times! We hope you were able to find some moments of rest over the few weeks since you last heard from us.
This week, Yousef and Kristina talk to Gloria Swain about making art as an older, Mad, Black, female artist and activist, the barriers in society and the sector. Gloria speaks about how her art and curatorial practices are part of the healing process for her. We talk about dancing as an integral part of art and healing processes (we love Gloria’s dancing on her Instagram page!)...2021-01-1238 minCrip TimesCrip Times Episode 6: The Jess Watkin EpisodeEpisode Notes
“It was interdependent magic. Like it really felt like magic.”
Happy solstice! They’re the four best friends anyone could have.
On the last Crip Times episode of 2020, all three hosts (Kayla, Kristina, Yousef) are joined by Jess Watkin, an artist, activist, academic, dramaturg, and most importantly, friend of the pod.
We spend some time laughing about how we all became friends through our various crip encounters, access intimacy, and what Jess’ work as an artist and disability dramaturg actually entails. Jess speaks about her upcoming projects, and the legacies of interdepe...2020-12-2255 minCrip TimesCrip Times Episode 5: The Jeff Thomas EpisodeEpisode Notes
This week, Kayla and Yousef are joined by Jeff Thomas, a Governor General Award-winning Indigenous photographer. Jeff provides us with some background on his photographic work which began in the 1970s as a response to the representation of Indigenous people through historical photography, and how it has grown and changed since becoming disabled.
Jeff talks about turning photographs used for propaganda into tools of revitalization, and how he’s trying to continue the storytelling tradition in his family, blending this with new technologies such as 3D scanning and drones.
In his work Indians on...2020-12-1541 minCrip TimesCrip Times Episode 4: The Cindy Baker EpisodeEpisode Notes
This week, Yousef and Kristina are joined by Cindy Baker, a contemporary artist whose work engages with queer, gender, race, disability, fat, and art discourses. We recorded this episode in the summer, but we think you’ll find it really speaks to the end-of-2020 burnout that many of us are collectively experiencing.
Cindy describes herself as feeling ‘wobbly’—how relatable. She tells us about her work “Crash Pad,” how she resists the notion of productivity, and how the pandemic has brought to light some things that disabled folks have been advocating for for years. The co...2020-12-0746 minCrip TimesCrip Times Episode 3: The Ben Barry EpisodeEpisode Notes
Everybody gets dressed—but how can fashion be a tool of social justice?
This week, Kayla and Kristina sit down with Dr. Ben Barry, Chair of Fashion at Ryerson University. We talk about how we can imagine fashion beyond ‘the ideal body,’ how Ben and others are working to diversify fashion education, and how we can crip fashion, meaning create desirable clothes made by and for disabled people. We speak about how a co-created relaxed fashion show came together through education and Instagram prowess, how Ben’s current research project, Cripping Masculinity, has adapted...2020-11-3059 minCrip TimesCrip Times Episode 2: The Renee Dumaresque EpisodeEpisode Notes
Episode Overview
This week, Kristina and Kayla are joined by Renee Dumaresque, a PhD Student, writer, artist, and community organizer.
The episode starts with a conversation around how we’ve been dealing with the isolation of the pandemic (shocker), the ways that interdependence has been deepened these past months, and how boredom can plant seeds of creativity. Renee offers us reflections on chaos and fragmentation, as well as some observations about COVID-19 headlines and ‘hysteria,’ and how they are using found poetry to offer commentary or counter-narrative.
Renee tells us about...2020-11-2353 minCrip TimesCrip Times Episode 1: The Syrus Marcus Ware EpisodeEpisode Notes
On the first episode of Crip Times, hosts Yousef, Kayla, and Kristina speak with artist, activist, academic, and all around brilliant human, Syrus Marcus Ware.
This conversation discusses the movements and actions that have occurred in Toronto and across Turtles Island over the summer of 2020. The building of collective knowledge surrounding social justice and abolition. The four discuss the role of Deaf, Mad, and Disabled folks in activism, their value and necessity in activist spaces. The conversation moves to intergenerational movement building, the role of traditional knowledge in our imagined and possible futures, a...2020-11-1656 min