Community call in: Blackness, disability & culture
Description
A co-creating workshop held by Kym and Jumoke of The Triple Cripples. The space aims to be a safe place for the Black community to explore the topics of sexuality, religion, education, identity, economics and more, through the lens of Black disability. Especially in the context of illness, disability, taboo and stigma,
Kym and Jumoke will explore, and get honest about our discomfort, our areas of ignorance, taboos, our apprehensions, our triumphs, our path correction, and the role of colonialism in our understandings of disability. Holding the specific contexts which affect the Black experience of and interaction with Illness and Disability.
The space is intended to be a safe space to address all the topics that have remained whispers – a loving place to share, to be educated, to reimagine.
Following this initial session The Triple Cripples look to hold more sessions outside of the festival as part of their own ongoing practice, creating knowledge and building accessible tools ‘for us, by us’.
This workshop will be BSL interpreted.
Description
Kym Oliver and Jumoke Abdullahi joined forces to form the Triple Cripples because they were frustrated by the lack of representation and unaddressed discrimination faced by Black and non-Black people of colour living with disabilities. With a focus on women and gender-expansive folks, they created a platform to increase visibility and highlight the narratives of these “invisible populations, within an invisible population”.
With topical videos, spotlight interviews, workshops, talks and lectures on topics ranging from dating to travel, the duo have been featured on international platforms and consulted for their perspectives in academic, political and corporate circles. Their credits include NASA, Google, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the BBC, Oxford University, Metro, Cambridge University, The Voice, the Disability Leadership Institute, WOW Foundation, gal-dem and more. Multidisciplinary agents of change, Kym and Jumoke are relentless in their pursuit to transform the outcomes of those here and yet to come.
