“A Deaf Blind poet will not stop if police order him to.” John Lee Clark
I wanna be with you everywhere is a gathering of, by, and for disabled artists and writers and anyone who wants to get with us for a series of crip meet-ups, performances, readings and other social spaces of surplus, abundance and joy. It refuses policies of individuation and inclusion in favor of (and in the flavor of) whatever disability aesthetics has in bodymind. We won’t know what this is ‘til it shows us, but we do know that disability communities don’t only make art about disability.
We’re operating from the point of view of access intimacy. Access isn’t an individual’s need, but a common capacity shared between us all – a refuge in the means. Programs and events will unfold across each evening, but there’s also going to be a major sense of ease. There’s time in between events for hanging out – both in and of itself, and in resistance to the inaccessible infrastructure that so often keeps us physically separated.
Featuring performances and readings by: Eli Clare, John Lee Clark, Kayla Hamilton, Johanna Hedva, Jerron Herman, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, Camisha L. Jones, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Jordan Lord, NEVE, and Alice Sheppard.
