I've found language and hope and optimism and myself in the work of Disabled artists. Many of them have been where some of us are going. I'm threading a few that are on my mind starting with @shanfinnegan.

Museum Benches, 2018
https://shannonfinnegan.com/ 

As the word "vulnerable" surrounds us, I keep going back to @yoitsyosquared's work of documenting and visualizing her experience with chronic illness.

Resilience Journal, 2019
https://www.yoyolin.com/ 

What is new for many is standard for some. Carolyn Lazard has helped me understand how to support people in work and rest in this time.

Extended Stay, 2019

In Sickness & Study, 2015 -
http://www.carolynlazard.com/ 

I've shown @kriphopnation's "The Real Jim Crow" to hundreds if not thousands of people, but right now I'm thinking of the 1st of the month and what that feels like when you don't have it.

SSI Dollars, 2016
http://kriphopnation.com/  https://soundcloud.com/blackkrip/ssi-dollars

While healthcare workers are rightfully being praised, I keep thinking about how damaging the medical industrial complex has been to Disabled people, Black women and others for centuries. I look at Katya Tepper's work and wander.

Hysteric Signs, 2018
https://www.katyatepper.com/ 

My friend and mentor Simi Linton told me about Sunaura Taylor's work after I referenced a Judith Butler clip about the right to assemble. This happened at a time that I needed become more aware of the connections that exist between all forms of life.

Bison Greeting, 2014

I want to make stickers and t shirts and buttons and banners and commercials and calendars and hats with @cyreejarelle's words and put them on and around everything right now.

Disease Is Not A Metaphor, 2013 https://www.bgdblog.org/2013/07/2013729disease-is-not-a-metaphor/

Deprivation is what #DeafInPrison routinely experience. Prisons are deprivation. Right now, prisons are depriving prisoners of the right to be rescued by not releasing them en masse. @nancyrourke's work captures this.

Deaf In Prison, 2015
https://nancyrourke.square.site/