deafula

A little bit of a delayed announcement, but better late than never!

I am honored and delighted to announce that I have been awarded the 2015 Leeway Transformation Award. The Transformation Award is a $15,000 unrestricted grant given to women and trans* artists who create art for social change and demonstrate a long-term commitment to social change work.

A tremendous thank you to the Leeway Foundation and to the panelists who selected me as an awardee: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Annie Mok, Portia Cobb, Lynnée Denise, and Maria Bauman.

From the Leeway Foundation website:

“Kerri Radley is a writer who aims to increase the visibility of disabled persons by creating cultural artifacts that document and affirm lived experiences while also acting as informational resources for abled bodied allies. Most notably, since 2010, Kerri has written the acclaimed zine, Deafula. Through writing for zines and other publications, embarking on national reading tours, and organizing panels and discussions, Kerri aims to raise consciousness about disability struggles, challenge mainstream narratives of ability, and loudly demand a more accessible, just world.”

• 4 Mar 2016
• 16

just so you know

fogblogger:

thatdiabolicalfeminist:

the US minimum wage that we all agree is too low to live on ($15,080/yr) is far more than many legally disabled people receive in benefits

the maximum SSI for a single person is $8,796/yr
if a disabled person marries another, each drops to a max of $6,600/yr

while you’re fighting for 15 maybe look at that too

Not to mention we aren’t allowed to have more than $2,000 saved at a time. EVER. Like EVER or we lose all benefits completely. In the bank, in cash, it doesn’t matter. The government literally keeps us poor, while also making us pay immense amounts of money for health care that we require to even survive or function (let alone work enough to be able to get off of benefits, not to mention that there are a ton of people who will never be able to do that anyways). It’s a very, very broken system and not one that was ever meant to actually help anyone. 

Plus, “marriage equality” is still a huge problem for disabled people (as you can see), which is something almost everyone is ignorant to/doesn’t care about. 

DO NOT LEAVE DISABLED PEOPLE OUT OF YOUR ACTIVISM. 

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• 1 Feb 2016
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Calling For Submissions! Shaky Hands - on being physically disabled and in school

to-peck-at:

Shaky Hands will be a submission-based zine about experiences and struggles of navigating school with a physical disability. Currently accepting submissions from disabled people of all ages, with priority going toward POC, queer people, poor people, and other members of marginalized groups. (You do not have to currently be in school to submit.) It will be released in February 2016.

Please submit:

-artwork - drawings, pictures of sculpture, printmaking, digital works, etc.

-writing - excerpts and essays, poetry and other creative writing

-accounts of personal experiences

-any other exciting things you can think of!

Guidelines:

-only your own original content!

-image files should be 300 dpi, sized to 5x8in (vertical), sent as .jpegs or tifs

-writing should be sent as word docs

Send submissions with “Shaky Hands” in the email subject to 

kait.c.sanchez@gmail.com by January 10, 2015.

Questions can be sent to the same email or messaged to me.

I look forward to seeing your work!

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• 26 Dec 2015
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deafgaming:

Telling someone who has a cochlear implant or hearing aids that they aren’t really deaf is the same as telling someone who uses prosthetics that they aren’t really limbless.

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• 13 Dec 2015
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