--especially for those of us with disabilities. KIP is here to empower disabled people with shared knowledge from our community of care.
Sharing
"Sharing" is a collection dedicated to entertainment across social media and the wider internet that centers around disabled creators, information, and content.
Accessible Icon Project
Design Activism Community
The Accessible Icon Project is an ongoing work of design activism. It starts with a graphic icon, free for use in the public domain, and continues its work as a collaboration among people with disabilities and their allies toward a more accessible world.
COVID Disability Archive
Archive Project
The COVID Disability Archive is a online project dedicated to remembering disabled lives during the pandemic as they were some of the most overlooked and unconsidered despite paving the way for many of the resources and actions that were taken to help people during that time.
Disability Archives Lab
Archive Project
The Disability Archives Lab is a Disabled-led collaborative center by and for disabled people. The Lab investigates the ways that archives and the materials they hold document, shape, and impact disabled people—historically and in the present. Keeping critical disability studies at the forefront of researching and building projects around disability, the Lab hosts multi-disciplinary projects and research initiatives that center the politics of disability, how disabled people are affected by archival representation, and how to imagine archival futures that are centered around disabled desires.
Disability and Climate Change
Archive Project
Disability and Climate Change Public Archive Project bears witness to the harms disabled people face amidst climate disruption—and it documents the wisdom disabled people bring to navigating this crisis. The stories in the archive are fresh conversations with disability-identified activists, advocates, artists, first responders, policymakers, and other communal leaders. The archive makes a deliberate choice to prioritize conversations with disabled people of color and other multiply-marginalized disabled folks, because they recognize the urgency of centering the voices of those who are most impacted by crisis. They strive to reflect the tremendous breadth of disability experience, including insights from people with physical, sensory, and intellectual disabilities, the wisdom of sick and Mad communities, those living with chronic illness and chronic pain, chemical sensitivity, depression, mental/emotional disabilities, and more.
Flying Words Project
Poetry Performance
Flying Words Project is an American Sign Language (ASL) poetry troupe comprised of Deaf Poet Peter Cook and hearing coauthor Kenny Lerner. The goal of Flying Words is probably the same as all other poets, to play with language. As luck would have it, ASL is a language of moving pictures. So, Kenny and Peter juxtapose imagery you can see in creating their work. The pieces are first written in ASL. When a poem is completed, Peter and Kenny try to figure out how the hell to voice it! In other words, how to express just enough words and sounds so that hearing members in the audience can see the images for themselves. Together they create a moving tapestry uniquely accessible to both hearing and deaf audiences.
Kinetic Light
Dance Performance
Kinetic Light is a disability arts ensemble working in the disciplines of art, technology, design, and dance, Kinetic Light creates, performs, and teaches at the nexus of access, queerness, disability, dance, and race. It is led by disabled artists. Their work speaks to and emerges from disability aesthetics and disability culture, and it is connected to the rich traditions and exciting contemporary conversations of disabled artists in all artistic fields. In their work, disability is not a deficit, it is a powerful, intersectional creative force that is essential to their artistry. Access is integral to their art, creative process, administrative work, and audience experience.
