“That’s what movements do is they make the impossible possible.”

This week, your hosts Kristina and Yousef will be speaking with Dustin P Gibson, a activist and community builder whose work aims to expand our collective consciousness of marginalized communities and addresses the nexus between race, class, and disability. We talk about carceral systems, justice based ecosystems, the role of hip hop in resistance work, and more   Crip Times Podcast is a project of Tangled Art + Disability, with production support from Bodies Translation. Our theme music is by Wyatt Robinson. 

Read the full transcript, as well as helpful links and key quotes, here: https://tangledarts.org/whats-on/crip-times-the-dustin-p-gibson-episode/ 

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“I think that we can use the ways of neurodiversity to resist games of cure, and change the pace of education such as time, because we experience time differently about the space. And movement is key for thinking about always sitting in classrooms.”

This week, Kristina and Kayla are joined by Adam Wolfond and Estée Klar, a mother and son artist duo and the founders of dis assembly, a collective for neurodiverse, relational-artistic creation and collaboration. We discuss the ways traditional education systems create barriers for neurodiverse modes of being, collaborative art practices, with a guest appearance by Crip Times’ official mascot, Suzie, we discuss the ecologies of our environments. 

Adam uses text-to-speech to communicate. His responses are typed at a slower pace, one word at a time, and then articulated as a complete sentence at the end of a thought. We hope you welcome this as an opportunity to crip (like, as a verb) what podcasts are typically understood to sound like in an ableist audio world.

Read the full transcript, as well as helpful links and key quotes, https://tangledarts.org/whats-on/crip-times-the-adam-wolfond-and-estee-klar-episode/  

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"We see pain as something that we either need to annihilate or medicate away, but what does it mean to think about the generative possibilities of pain?"

This week, Kayla and Kristina are joined by scholar-poet Dr. Travis Chi Wing Lau. We discuss disclosure as a queer disabled academic, Twitter as a place of crip kinship, our shared love of revenge bedtime procrastination, and more.

Read the full transcript, as well as helpful links and key quotes, at: tangledarts.org/whats-on/crip-times-the-travis-lau-episode/

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This week on Crip Times, Kayla and Yousef are speaking with artists Christine Hammond and Debbie Ratcliff, two Ottawa-based artists from BEING studio. A studio dedicated to supporting artists with developmental disabilities working in visual art and creative writing. We are also joined by BEING’s executive director, Rachel Gray. The group discusses the power of friendship and community in their creative processes, working remotely, and ninja cats.

Read the full transcript, as well as helpful links and key quotes at: https://tangledarts.org/whats-on/crip-times-the-being-studio-episode/ 

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"You cannot care about racism against Black folks and not care about homophobia and transphobia. You cannot care about Islamophobia and not care about antisemitism.” We cannot pick and choose the issues that we care about, you know?

It’s our second episode of our second season, angel number 2, anyone? This week we are joined by Jill Andrew, politician, activist, author, and friend! Jill, Kayla, and Kristina discuss the state of politics in Toronto, Ontario, and Canada, navigating disclosure in public space, the childlike wonder of playing in the snow, and more. 

Read the full transcript, as well as helpful links and key quotes, at www.tangledarts.org/crip-times-season-2-the-jill-andrew-episode.

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“The disability arts community is so powerful in that way - we just find each other.”

Welcome to the first episode of Crip Times Season 2! This week we’re joined by multi-talented artist and actor Bruce Horak. Bruce, Kristina, and Yousef discuss making people feel seen via Blind portraiture, Star Trek, Shakespearean goblins, and more.

Read the full transcript, as well as helpful links and key quote, at Tangledarts.org/crip-times-season-2-the-bruce-horak-episode 

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We, (Kayla, Kristina, and Yousef) are back with more friends and collaborators, speaking with academics, artists, and activists operating on world stages, community spaces, and their homes, finding and maintaining creative connections for disability, madness, art, politics, collaboration.

We loved producing Season 1, and with the generous support of @tangled and @Bit we were able to bring a brilliant group of guests and collaborators together to produce Season 2.  We learned a lot from our first season, this time we laughed a little more, cried a little less, and deepened our commitment to producing content to benefit our community, and ourselves. 

Starting Tuesday July 19, episodes will be available wherever you get your podcasts; full transcripts and show notes for all episodes will be available at tangledarts.org (access is transcripts and access is love; we all already knew that) 

It’s a privilege to do this work and an even bigger privilege to share it with you!    We can’t wait for you to tune in, and that you enjoy Crip Times as much as we’ve enjoyed making it.

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