Arpillera Americanx * Cunt Quilt (Crip) Stitch n Bitch

Stitch n Bitch (Crip) invited a hybrid virtual and IRL audience to perform their citizenship in an art therapy arpillera making salon with local and national disability justice leaders at Perez Art Museum Miami on Saturday March 27, 2021 3-5pm curated by Jennifer Ignacio & Marie Vickles.

Artist Coralina Rodriguez Meyer hosted an arpillera salon to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the American Disabilities Act to create Discussion leaders participants featuring guest artists/activists: Victoria Dugger, Oaklee Thiele & Jaklin Romine, ADA legal expert Matthew Dietz (Disability Independence Group), branding director Kevin Kedroe (Knead Creative), art educator Andrea Preston (American Heritage School) and art therapist Elia Khalaf (University of Miami oncology center).

Participants co-created the 16th Cunt Quilt Arpillera Americanx protest flag during the interactive discussion. Quilters democratically debate with speakers whose direct action work dismantles structural violence within and beyond institutions, professions and intimate social settings. Spanning public policy, navigating ableism, and mutual aid during the pandemic; the hosts lead a layered discussion about how mental, physical and civic health is central to the survival of disabled people.

A crowd sourced, hybrid program series for the Performance 4 Ways: My Body My Rules show is a FREE livestream and outdoor masked event on the porch at PAMM with an ASL interpreter. Stitch n Bitch (Crip) references the revelatory momentum of the recent Oscar nominated movie "Crip Camp" by empowering our essential and excluded community to examine the way US politics intersects with our visionary culture.

PAMM production shooting & webcast team: Denise Faxas, Andrew Byrd, Lazaro Llanes

Stitch n Bitch footage captured by Matthew Thomas