I require my own room, bed, and private bathroom in a non-smoking room that has a window. Please check with me about this before booking flights. Depending on my health, sometimes I require wheelchair assistance at the airport. On transatlantic flights, I require an economy seat with extra leg room, premium economy, or business class. I must have an aisle seat on the flight, because I use a cane. I need to be picked up from, and taken to, the airport. If a layover must happen, it cannot be longer than two hours. The airport cannot be more than one hour away from my house. Their travel, lodging, food, and transportation must be paid for by the host, as mine are. I prefer to bring a care person with me, because we will already have a relationship and they will know what is needed. I’ll need to fly home the day after the event. I require at least 48 hours after arriving to acclimate before I can participate in any public events. (For the commission of new work, or an event that requires a more long-term relationship, we’ll need to have a conversation about time.) Accessibility takes a really long time and it’s messy af! Trust me, the more time there is to work out all the logistics, the better. I require all of the below to be confirmed and agreed upon by contract at least three weeks before the event takes place. The fact that it is often funded by me, in more ways than just financial, signals how inaccessible the world is. I am more interested in accessibility as something for which we work together, rather than a punitive standard I measure you against.īelow my requirements is a list of references that give more insight to where I’m coming from.Īccess should not be funded solely by me, the disabled individual (e.g., taken out of my fee or production/materials/travel budget), but shared with the institution, and/or city, state, and/or federal funding. If you can’t provide something on this list, let’s have a conversation about it. I’m happy to clarify and assist where I can. If you need more specifics about any component, ask me. Before I can commit to that process with you-and honey, it is a pro cess!-please take a moment to read the below, and let me know how you can support each item. This means that we’re going to have to embark on access intimacy together (if you don’t know what that is, please click here to read this article by Mia Mingus). I also require the events I’m part of to be accessible to the disabled community. Thank you for inviting me to contribute to your event! I am disabled, so for me to be able to participate, I need support from my hosts. And I invite anyone working within the institution to use it too. I welcome anyone who wants to use this as a template for your own rider, or to share with institutions who invite you to do stuff. I decided to make my access rider public because many people have asked to see it, and I’ve heard from a range of folks-from other crip artists, to abled curators who want to work with us-that this document has been a useful model for them. I’ve found that my access rider is often the first of its kind that they’ve seen. They’ve often never heard of “access intimacy” before, or if they have, they don’t know what it means in actual practice. So that we can work together better, now, when I am invited somewhere, the first thing I do in response is send my Disability Access Rider.Īccessibility is just starting to take root in how institutions understand and work with disabled artists and communities. In doing these events, I’ve learned a lot about my own capacity and how working with institutions tends to go. Over the last few years, I’ve received more and more invitations to speak and/or perform at arts and literary institutions (often internationally).
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