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This is an article witth dancer and choreographer Soléne Weinachter on working as a freelance dancer, why the body has its own time, dancing away from the mirror, and establishing boundaries when working in a physically intimate art form. On listening to the voice inside of you.
This is an online form, to be part of a growing resource that is an online directory of queer and trans ASL interprtors of colour across the USA. You can also be in touch with the two people who created the form, resource to ask questions or give suggestions.
This article is written by a first generation Mexican American woman of color who discusses her experiences of microaggressions as a dance artist and how this has damaged her emotional health as a person of color. The artcile engages with conversations and collaboration with other dancers of color and colleagues to name some of their personal experiences in the dance world that reinforce systemic racism.
A Video produced by the Arts Council looking at how disabled dance artists are challenging the world of contemporary dance? Who are the disabled choreographers at the foreground of artistic innovation? Why is it important that disabled dance artists author their own work as choreographers and artistic leaders?
This is a Guide to Being an Ally to Transgender and Non-binary Youth, it is an introductory educational resource that covers a wide range of topics and best practices on how to support transgender and non-binary people.
This article is about how the Black Lives Matter movement has drawn attention to injustice in the black community in policing, public health, and education. As WXXI’s Noelle Evan’s reports, people with disabilities are also part of the movement for social justice.
This article is about the white supremacist fetishization of black bodies and how it is often conflated with a care for black lives, but white desire is no evidence of care for black folks.
This is an article written by black woman Zahra Barnes about trying to process the violence and racism that are part and parcel of living in the Uk and as a black or brown person, during a pandemic that, of course, is decimating Black lives, health, and communities the most.
This page is a collection of resource, looking at dismantling systems and ideologies of oppression that devalue and dehumanize people of color. Here you’ll find a wealth of anti-racism and somatic abolitionism resources.
This article is written in Spanish. The artcile is by Black, Trans artist “LoMaasBello” from Buenaventura, Colombia talking about what inclusive language means to people of fluid gender.