Hi friends – It’s been a bit of time. Lots of things are moving forward! I am very grateful to be a recipient of DanceNYC’s Disability.Dance.Artistry.Dance and Social Justice Fellowship for my efforts to lead/launch Raw Movement! Though seeing my name next to the word disability is jarring to my mind and body (and not the way I personally identify; and note my slight nervousness to go against others’ ways of identifying), my current reality is that I have been recovering from severe acute illness during the pandemic as well as recovering from what others term “chronic illness”. While I don’t use disabled as an identity marker for myself, I certainly am absolutely disabled BY most spaces and environments due to their neurotypicalism, ableism, classism, heterosexism, etc. (e.g., social model of disability).