Contributing to VIBE, and Crip Arts Before and Since

Authors

  • Seeley Quest

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v10i2.807

Keywords:

cross-genre writing, performance art, transgender, non-apparent disabilities, erotics, activism, immigration

Abstract

cross-genre writing, performance art, transgender, non-apparent disabilities, erotics, activism, immigration

Author Biography

Seeley Quest

Seeley Quest is a trans disabled writer, performer, dramaturg, organizer, and environmentalist, in Montreal since 2017. Working primarily in literary and body-based composition, and curation, sie presented actively in the San Francisco Bay Area 2001-14, with the Sins Invalid project 2007-15, and has toured to Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, and many US cities. A poem’s in the book Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape, hir first digital game narrative debuted for National AccessAbility Week 2020, and sie’s performing an ecological assessment for Buddies in Bad Times’ Rhubarb Festival 2021. Sie inaugurated a poetry and prose workshop for disabled writers winter 2021 with the Quebec Writers’ Federation, and a “Queer Disabled Joy” movement workshop for Studio 303’s 2021 Queer Performance Camp. Hir playscript in progress, “Modeling” has developed in programs with Teesri Duniya, RealWheels, and Centaur Theatres, and sie participated in the UK disability arts Sync Leadership programme’s launch in Quebec. A white person with mixed class, gender, and medicalized experiences since childhood, sie loves connecting audiences for co-learning and social action. Not on social media, find hir via email at https://questletters.substack.com.

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Published

2021-10-08

How to Cite

Quest, S. (2021). Contributing to VIBE, and Crip Arts Before and Since. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 10(2), 316–323. https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v10i2.807

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 2 (2021): VIBE: Challenging Ableism and Audism Through the Arts

Section

Artist Statements

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