Illustration: "Museum Bench" by Shannon Finnegan
A purple background with white writing that says 'queer crip craft.' Below it is a black and white line illustration of a bench that reads "this exhibition has asked me to stand for too long / sit if you agree" by Shannon Finnegan.
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LOGISTICS
Meetings will be held every Thursday from 5 pm - 6:30 pm PST/ 8 pm - 9:30 pm EST on Zoom.
THURSDAY, MARCH 10th 5-6:30PM
THURSDAY, MARCH 17th 5-6:30PM
THURSDAY, MARCH 24th 5-6:30PM
THURSDAY, MARCH 31st 5-6:30PM
THURSDAY, APRIL 7th 5-6:30PM
THURSDAY, APRIL 14th 5-6:30PM
March 10th - April 14th, 2022
*Meetings occur every Thursday from 5 pm-6:30 pm PST on Zoom.
QUEER CRIP CRAFT
Similar to the word queer, ‘crip’ is in the process of being reclaimed by some members of the disability justice community. When used as a verb, to queer refers to challenging heteronormativity through the troubling of binaries like gender, sexuality, masculinity, femininity, and identity politics and systems of oppression. But what does it mean to crip something? or to queercrip something? And how might we use the core ideas of disability justice and queer of color critique to queercrip craft?
This group's focus is on inquiry and we welcome participants of all communities and identities to share and expand their knowledge and experience of the intersections of queerness and disability with race, class, gender, capitalism, and colonialism. Group members will be invited to knit, crochet, or otherwise craft during weekly meetings. Content will center QTBIPOC artists and scholars including Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, E. Patrick Johnson, Sky Cubacub, and Andil Gosine, among others, as we contemplate queer crip craft as a way of seeing, thinking, creating, and theorizing.
How do we access the materials for this reading room?
Readings will be provided as digital PDFs with screen reader compatibility. Videos will be made available with closed captioning and/or audio description. If there are ways the materials or other aspects of the meetings could be made more accessible to you, please reach out to Betsy (betsyredelman@gmail.com)
HOSTED BY: Betsy Redelman DíAZ
Betsy Redelman Díaz is a QueerCrip artist and professor with a socially engaged and research-based practice. Her work explores the intersections between critical pedagogy, intersectional feminism, decolonization processes, disability justice, queerness, and craft, often manifesting in the form of collaborative projects, interdisciplinary courses, utilitarian ceramics, performance, writing, short films, and long conversations. Redelman Díaz received her MFA in Craft studies at Oregon College of Art and Craft in 2017 and her BA in International Studies from Loyola University Chicago in 2013. She has taught studio-seminar courses at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University for the past three and a half years and recently relocated to Indiana where she is excited to continue teaching and making in her home state.