I’m a disabled, bedbound, self-taught, multi-disciplinary artist and writer who believes that disability has opened up a unique way of seeing and inhabiting my own world.
Living with a disability has had its challenging times of doubt, overwhelm, and insecurity, but I’ve always tried to keep an open mind in building welcoming spaces for Crip access by focusing on giving back what has been gifted to me throughout my career.
The Sync Re-Ignite Leadership program has created a welcoming community for me that hasn’t always existed before, and I’m truly lucky to be part of it.
Working with such an amazing family of leaders inspires me to focus on the very foundations of my beliefs: that we all have an important viewpoint to be heard, a responsibility to break barriers within society of what disability can accomplish, while playing a part in making this world a more inclusive and equitable place for us and for our future Crip communities.
Being part of this cohort is giving me another way of seeing and interpreting Crip spaces, and I envision this project to facilitate community-engaged arts experiences within every form of disability-driven communities.
My own impression of Sync is a sense of sacredness in our bodies and in our own lives and with most able-bodied communities, I don’t have this unique and often misunderstood insight. Within society, I struggle to find meaningful change, and therefore navigate the world with difficulty, and find a lack of caring and compassionate presence.
With this project I feel included and held, while having a sense of gentleness and an exploratory commitment to being heard without judgment or in simply being ignored.
I feel that everyone can thrive, regardless of their abilities, and we can all achieve greatness in our own special way, with tolerance, joy, and hope for a better world.
