This episode was originally produced for Radio LUMI as part of Luminato 2021. Head on over to the Luminato website to learn more. You can also find more content like this on the Radio LUMI podcast.

This episode was originally produced for Radio LUMI as part of Luminato 2021. Head on over to the Luminato website to learn more. You can also find more content like this on the Radio LUMI podcast.

In this episode, I interviewed Syrus Marcus Ware, a Black, trans, disabled, MAD, queer artist and activist. He is a visual artist, performance artist, and a core member of Black Lives Matter Toronto. Together, we discuss defunding the police and prison abolition, their work in responding to COVID-19, the connection between Disability Justice and Black Liberation, and parenting as a Black disabled trans artist.

Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/171_zjlKnwTg_lpBHgZXr7hSaW-y4g3yzw_6bX7Yfgm4/edit

Black Lives Matter Canada: https://blacklivesmatter.ca/

Music: "Rules Were Meant to Be Broken" by LAL

In this episode, I interviewed Wy Joung Kou, a queer, chronically ill, multi-disciplinary artist based in Toronto.  I met with Kou to discuss creating art while managing chronic illness and pain, what financial access means for disabled artists, and the relationship disabled artists have with care and community. 

Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BGtYPx7yk19vcYfV7iFvvI-CJz2y-LDXv33tt1XvH7s/edit

Music: "Rules Were Meant to Be Broken" by LAL

Special thanks Xtra Magazine for helping to produce and record this episode. 

In this episode, I speak with Rosina Kazi, a mad-identified artist who performs in the electronic radical racialized duo LAL and co-created Unit 2, a community art space, and Bricks & Glitter, an alternative Pride festival here in Tkaronto to discuss creating safer spaces in the music industry, why they created Unit 2 and the Bricks & Glitter festival, and madness in both artistic and South Asian communities. 

Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eI0F4GYUX8FcRs_156H4Cet0_fV-FfwNFV9Pk_Ttv3Q/edit

Bricks & Glitter

LAL: https://lalforest.bandcamp.com/

Music: "Rules Were Meant to Be Broken" by LAL

Special thanks to Xtra Magazine for help with production and recording of this episode. 

In this episode, I interviewed Justin Many Fingers, who at the time was the artistic director of Making Treaty 7 Cultural Society, an Indigenous theatre organization. Justin is a Queer, Indigenous, disabled, and MAD artist trained in acting, singing, and dancing in both Western and Indigenous constructs. We sat down to discuss learning to claim our identities, dealing with tokenization, and what an Indigenous arts culture means. 

Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BNAnQ221AITksf2t8cCpeNsijfMNFuDoC0vaoiKm4Ho/edit?usp=sharing 

Land acknowledgements: uncovering an oral history of Tkaronto: https://locallove.ca/issues/land-acknowledgements-uncovering-an-oral-history-of-tkaronto/#.XvgdwyhKhPZ

Music: "Rules Were Meant to Be Broken" by LAL (correction, in the episode I say the song is from Dark Beings, but it's from Find Safety)

Special thanks to Xtra Magazine for help with the recording of this episode.