I Wanna Be with You Everywhere

A gathering of disabled artists and writers at Performance Space and the Whitney Museum, in 2019

This event is a significant gathering of disabled artists, showcasing collective disability aesthetics and redefining accessibility in performance and art spaces. By prioritizing disabled voices and lived experiences, it enriches Disability Justice in the arts, celebrating disability culture as a source of community-driven knowledge and creativity.Tech Literacy & Accessibility: This program centres disabled artists and writers through fully accessible performances and readings, providing a collaborative space for artistic expression by disabled individuals. By emphasizing disability aesthetics as something embodied and experienced collectively, the event challenges typical accessibility practices and promotes tech literacy in formats that reflect disabled realities. Reducing Harm in New Media: I Wanna Be with You Everywhere “refuses policies of individuation and inclusion in favour of (and in the flavour of) whatever disability aesthetics has in bodymind,” meaning it moves beyond tokenistic inclusion to embrace the richness of disability culture as a communal, sensory experience. This directly challenges isolating and stigmatizing media portrayals, reducing harm by offering complex, lived representations of disability that resist stereotypical narratives. Data & Knowledge Stewardship: This program creates a living archive that documents and celebrates disabled artists’ works on their own terms. By prioritizing communal, embodied knowledge, it builds a collective repository of disability aesthetics that remains controlled by the disability community, preserving a diverse range of creative expressions and lived experiences for future generations.