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FCP Homework
Since Autumn last Year, DASH has introduced Homework to each monthly FCP meeting. We invite the FCP network partners to read and reflect on a piece of writing or work that we feel is relevant to the ongoing learning and sharing of the Future Curators Programe.
Please find links to these below.
June 2025
This week's theme is “comedy series' and Stand Up!”
We've selected some of our favourite comedians who could identify as disabled (anxiety, adhd, dyslexia, depression, endometriosis, chronic ill health, autism).
This might not feel relevant, but for us it's 100% relevant! Things are tough at the moment, and we want to laugh together.
Available to watch on TV/online:
- Fern Brady's Best Moments | Taskmaster
25 mins, YouTube - Dinosaur
Series 1, 6 Episodes, 25 mins. BBC iPlayer - We Might Regret This
Season 1, 6 Episodes, approx. 25 mins. iPlayer - Last One Laughing
Season 1, 6 Episodes. Approx. 30 mins. Prime - This Way Up
Season 1, 6 Episodes, 25 mins. Channel 4
Radio recordings:
- BBC Radio 4 - Jessica Fostekew: Sturdy Girl Club, 1. Strongwoman
Stand up series from about strong women, quite literally - women weightlifters.
14 mins. BBC Radio 4 - BBC Radio 4 - Paul Sinha's General Knowledge
4 Episodes, 30 mins each. BBC Radio 4
May 2025
The disabled experience is increasingly visible in the artworld yet an ableist political landscape is constantly on the attack. This affects us all. Reflect on the following 2 articles:
- Art Review: Disability Is Not a Separate Category of Personhood
- Frieze: Welfare Cuts Will Harm Disabled Artists
March 2025
Reflect on blog Access Intimacy: The Missing Link | Leaving Evidence by Mia Mingus.
Biography
Mia Mingus is a writer, educator and trainer for transformative justice and disability justice. She is a queer physically disabled korean transracial and transnational adoptee raised in the Caribbean. She works for community, interdependence and home for all of us, not just some of us, and longs for a world where disabled children can live free of violence, with dignity and love. Read More
February 2025
Reflect on Episode 1 from the Call Me Disabled podcast: Poppy Field in conversation with Jameisha Prescod, 'Disabled Identity and Radical Resting', shared by Rachel Fleming-Mulford. (33 mins).
- Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/rhb5t39n
- Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/t98xsb8n
January 2025
Consider ways to implement Accessible Recruitment within your organisation:
A Guide to Accessible Recruitment - Disability Arts Online
November 2024
Reflect on Actions list (pp.298-299) by Stacey Park Milbern featured in the book, The Future is Disabled by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.
October 2024
Reflect on text shared by Jade Foster, HOLDING SPACE ACROSS CRIP TIME: Leah Clements, Taraneh Fazeli and K MacBride, 28 October 2021, published online article by Serpentine Galleries.
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
As part of our ongoing practice we are building a Glossary of Terms that references common words or phrases we refer to in our work. This is an ever evolving document and will be updated periodically.