#CripArts
Wordgathering.com will be moving to Bluesky. I just need some time to make the transmutation.
#lit #Crip #Disability #poetry #CripLit #CripArts

@stevekuusisto.bsky.social
Wordgathering – A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature
Wordgathering.com
November 18, 2024 at 7:15 AM
#CripCoop principle 10: Together, we have more power. Let's use our shared power to make life easier for all of us - if the idea appeals to you?
#Disability #DisabilitySky #NEISVoid #CripArts #Cooperatives #FixTheWork #CripPower
And a 10th song now added to the #CripCoop playlist, along with a 10th #CripCoop principle: There is power in numbers. Together, we can do anything www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwbz... #ShareYourSkills #ShareYourNeeds #SupportEachOther #Community #Connection #Cooperatives #CoOps #JoinAUnion cripcoop.com
February 15, 2025 at 6:20 PM
“ … lessons learned during the Covid pandemic already seem to have receded, with non-disabled voices quickly being given precedence and essential accessibility measures proving mere gimmicks rather than genuine improvements”@viciws.bsky.social
#DisabilityTheatre #CripArts #Theatre
March 20, 2025 at 5:14 AM
#CripCoop principle 4: #Hope is political - and dreams can come true #Disability #DisabilitySky #NEISVoid #CripArts
"Anyone knows an ant can't
Move a rubber tree plant
But he's got high hopes
He's got high hopes
He's got high apple pie
In the sky hopes
So any time you're gettin' low
'Stead of lettin' go
Just remember that ant
Oops, there goes another rubber tree plant"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6mc... #CripCoop
Frank Sinatra - High Hopes (Meanderthal Remix)
YouTube video by Meanderthal
www.youtube.com
February 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
We are very pleased to inform you that the Summer 2025 issue of Wordgathering is now “live.”

Thank you to everyone who has made this issue possible.

Please share widely: wordgathering.com/vol19/issue1/

Thank you for your ongoing support and dedication.

#CripLit #CripArts
Volume 19, Issue 1 – Summer 2025 – Wordgathering
wordgathering.com
September 1, 2025 at 2:54 AM
#CripCoop principle 1: People should pay Chronically Ill and #Disabled people fairly (and ideally generously) #Disability #DisabilitySky #NEISVoid #CripArts
February 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Wordgathering is a vital voice publishing #CripLit & #CripArts.

I'm honored they chose to include my #SpokenWord video "Every Clock Is a Handgun Pointed at My Head" in their Winter 2024-2025 issue.

#solidarity #CripArts #CripLit #ActuallyAutistic

wordgathering.com/vol18/issue2...
February 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
#CripCoop principle 6: Chronically Ill or Disabled? You are almost certainly worth more money than you're currently charging. Confidence = cash (or BACS nowadays but that's less alliterative)
#Disability #DisabilitySky #NEISVoid #CripArts
"Your love gives me such a thrill but your love won't pay my bills. I want money. That's what I want" www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Juk... Such a brilliant, high energy version of a brilliant song - and fab anticapitalist video to boot. Play it loud - I'm chair-dancing to it as I type. #CripCoop
Moontalk feat. Wilhelmina - Money (That's What I Want) (Music Video)
YouTube video by Moontalk
www.youtube.com
February 15, 2025 at 6:10 PM
#CripCoop principle 2: CripCoOp is open to anyone CIAD regardless of race, sexuality, gender, age, class, & all the other intersections. Too ill to contribute? You can still join/get support. CripCoop supports all #CIAD people, not just the most enabled #Disability #DisabilitySky #NEISVoid #CripArts
"Celebrate your oddities, your worth, your sexuality
Celebrate your urges, celebrate humanity
Celebrate your fetishes, my message is clear
There’s no such thing as normal, everybody’s weird"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFL5...
#CripCoop
All In Together - Professor Elemental - Dir: Moog Gravett
YouTube video by Rapscallion And Chums
www.youtube.com
February 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
We are now accepting submissions for Winter 2021. Please submit your work by 11/15, for review. We have rolling submissions, so if you miss the 11/15 deadline, there is always the Spring 2022 issue. #CripLit #CripArts
Questions? wordgathering@syr.edu or DM

wordgathering.com/submission-gui…
November 26, 2024 at 1:58 PM
#CripCoop principle 8: There is no 'right' way to be a member of CripCoOp (aside from not being a bully, & respecting boundaries). Anyone can suggest an idea to CripCoOp using the tag. Gather people together. Do your own thing. Ask for support as needed #Disability #DisabilitySky #NEISVoid #CripArts
February 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Not sure what #CripCoop is all about? This (now 10 song) playlist explains the principles via #music. Chronically ill or disabled? Join us! Visit CripCoop.com for more info: basic idea - share your skills & needs & connect with other #CIAD people for mutual support #DisabilitySky #NEISVoid #CripArts
February 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
#CripCoop principle 7: This is for real. We've waiting for enabled people to support us for far too long. Some are great but the majority - and systems - have failed, to the extent that people are dying. If you want a problem solved, ask a #CIAD person! #Disability #DisabilitySky #NEISVoid #CripArts
"We're making it up as we go along, humming a half remembered song. When we woke up we thought what's the big deal. Then we remembered, this is for real. You've got to laugh and the world laughs with you. Feel the fear and do it anyway." (a personal anthem). www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdRB... #CripCoop
This Is For Real By David Devant And His Spirit Wife
YouTube video by Outstanding
www.youtube.com
February 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
#CripCoop principle 9: Keep dreaming. Having dreams is political. Making them come true can be lots of fun. You CAN do this (whatever 'this' is) You know what you're capable of more than anyone. Trust your instincts. If you don't try, you'll never know #Disability #DisabilitySky #NEISVoid #CripArts
"Half my life's in books' written pages
Lived and learned from fools and from sages
You know it's true
All the feelings come back to you
Sing with me, sing for the year
Sing for the laughter and sing for the tear
Sing with me if it's just for today"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gilz... #DreamOn #CripCoop
Steven Tyler, Slash, and Train “Dream On” at the Howard Stern Birthday Bash (2014)
YouTube video by The Howard Stern Show
www.youtube.com
February 15, 2025 at 6:16 PM
#CripCoop principle 5: Crip pride! (Also, disabled people are *hot* 🔥 as this video clearly demonstrates - and there's a sprinkling of #CripPunk in CripCoOp too)

#Disability #DisabilitySky #NEISVoid #CripArts
"I'm Spasticus Autisticus"
Are you? And who fancies a #singalong www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0v6... (oh, and anyone who thinks #disabled people can't be #sexy should watch this. SO MANY hot people. I have A LOT of new crushes - and a reminder of one longstanding one 😉) FAB letter to the BBC. #CripCoop
Graeae performs "Spasticus Autisticus" musical number | 8th anniversary of London Paralympic Games
YouTube video by WhatsOnStage
www.youtube.com
February 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
#CripCoop principle 3: Together - and with enough hope - we can do anything #Disability #DisabilitySky #NEISVoid #CripArts
"Mama said
Fulfill the prophecy
Be something greater
Go make a legacy
Manifest destiny
Back in the days
We wanted everything, wanted everything
Mama said
Burn your biographies
Rewrite your history
Light up your wildest dreams" www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQj1... #CripCoop www.youtube.com/@thedailysmile
High Hopes Sign Language
YouTube video by thedailysmile
www.youtube.com
February 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Submissions for the Fall 2022 issue will close on August 15, 2022.

Send us your #CripLit #CripArts

@AcidicVermin9 @StephenKuusisto @BBISyracuse @SyracuseULib

wordgathering.com/submission-gui
November 26, 2024 at 2:01 PM
Submissions for the Summer 2022 issue will close on May 15, 2022.

Send us your #CripLit #CripArts

wordgathering.com/submission-gui…
November 26, 2024 at 2:01 PM
Submissions deadline for Summer 2022 issue is 5.15.2022

Send us your work, comrades!

#DisabilityTwitter #CripLit #CripArts

We have rolling submissions. If you cannot make the May deadline, send us work to review for the Fall issue!

wordgathering.com/submission-gui
November 26, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Submissions deadline for Spring 2022 issue is 2.15.2022

Send us your work, comrades!

#DisabilityTwitter #CripLit #CripArts

We have rolling submissions. If you cannot make the 2/15 deadline, send us work to review for the Summer issue!

wordgathering.com/submission-gui
November 26, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Interviews – Winter 2021 – Wordgathering

#CripArts and #CripLit convos—in-depth!

Nyesha Jones and @DianeWorms⁩
Laurie Clements Lambeth and Tom Fletcher
@ChanikaSvetvil1 ⁦@JenniferCabral⁩ and ⁦@DianeWorms⁩

#DisabilityTwitter

wordgathering.com/vol15/issue4/i…
November 26, 2024 at 1:59 PM