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Disability Poetics: Naomi Ortiz
As part of the Disability Poetics Video Series, Naomi Ortiz reads their poem "Heart Remedy for Mountain Scars" and talks about their ideas of Disability Poetics and how Disability Poetics relates to Ecopoetics.
Disability Poetics is a series of short videos featuring poets reading their poetry and then discussing how their perception and work relates to what constitutes Disability Poetics. Curated by Kenny Fries, the ten selected disabled poets represent a diverse range of disabilities, generations, and backgrounds, creating both a virtual disability poetry community, as well as a resource for poets, disabled and nondisabled alike.
“I’ve been using [Sustaining Spirit] every morning at the kitchen table with our kids and because you’ve written these chapters that are beautiful and not too long, we’re able to read them while we eat breakfast and then I ask them the questions as kind of prompts for the day. It’s been interesting to watch them create good healthy boundaries for themselves…That has been super encouraging for me to watch as a parent. ”
— Pr. Hazel Salazar-Davidson, Sierra Pacific Synod Assistant to the Bishop for Authentic Diversity, Inclusive Community and Service
Videos
HIVES
HIVES is excited to celebrate the release of Rituals for Climate Change: A Crip Struggle for Ecojustice by Naomi Ortiz! This video features readings from the text followed by a vibrant Q&A!
Split This Rock Poetry Writing Capsule: Rituals for Home with Naomi Ortiz
In this poetry writing capsule, Naomi Ortiz leads listeners and viewers in redefining generalizations and exploring how they might reveal themselves to us in a different way. In the second writing prompt, Ortiz guides listeners and viewers in locating their own feeling of home.
A Crip Struggle for Ecojustice | Naomi Ortiz and Syren Nagakyrie in Discussion
Sustaining Justice: Maintaining Hope and Conviction for the Long Haul
Co–Keynote Address for Kehilla Community Synagogue - adrienne maree brown Naomi Ortiz, and Aurora Levins Morales. April 2022 (ASL)
Ecocrip Sensibilities: Mending, Care, and Love Affairs - with Naomi Ortiz
Sponsored by Syracuse Burton Blatt Institute (Captioned and ASL)
Additional Videos
Self-Care in the Time of COVID Co-sponsored by Detroit Disability Power and Allies for Change Facilitated by Owólabi Copeland (Captioned) Virtual Book Reading & Conversation: Self Care for Social Justice Activists in the Time of COVID-19. Detroit Disability Power has joined together with Allies for Change to host a virtual conversation between Naomi Ortiz, the author of Sustaining Spirit: Self Care for Social Justice, and DDP’s own Community Care Circle facilitator, Will Copeland. Self-Care for Social Justice Activists in the Time of COVID will be a conversation, a book reading, and self-care in-and-of-itself.
Claiming Connection: Cultivating a Relationship with Place as Disabled Artist Sponsored by Sierra Pacific Synod (YouTube Captions only) The exhibition Ansel Adams in Our Time focuses on the artist’s relationship with nature and with other artists. Syren Nagakyrie of Disabled Hikers facilitates a panel discussion between artists Galadriel Mozee, Naomi Ortiz, and Denise Vasquez which will challenge the traditional idea of who can be a landscape artist. The artists discuss their practices, relationship with nature, experiences in the field of art, and the artists who inspire them.
ASLE SPOTLIGHT New Work in Ecocriticism and the Environmental Humanities. Featuring: Mildred Barya, The Animals of My Earth School, Ching-in Chen and Cassie Mira, Breathing in a Time of Disaster, Ursula Heise and Chi Pham, Environment and Narrative in Vietnam, Naomi Ortiz, Rituals for Climate Change: A Crip Struggle for Ecojustice
Split This Rock presents "The future lives in our bodies:" A Disability Justice & Poetry Roundtable Featured poets Naomi Ortiz, Meg Day, and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, with Camisha Jones as moderator. This discussion focuses on what's most at stake, what's most cherished, and ideas on the way forward. (Captioned and ASL.)
A Crip Reckoning: Reflections on the ADA at 30 (ASL and Captioned Video – Naomi’s section starts at 51:00)
DIS2018: Naomi Ortiz, “Mending Spirits: Disabled Mestiza Self-Care” The Disability and Intersectionality Summit 2018 National conference (DIS2018) took place on Saturday October 13th at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA.
“I am a Pre-Existing Condition: Healthcare, Mental Health, and Self-Care” (Naomi begins at 17:46.)
