dreaming our futures + embodying our dreams is a year-long crip ritual opera made by, with, and for Disabled folks dreaming together from bed. Rooted in Disability Justice, dreaming our futures centers processes of community co-creation, responsive accessibility, and radical inclusion in a live participatory remote setting that prioritizes our collective safety through ongoing pandemic. Channeling interdependence and community care, dreaming our futures encompasses the transformation that takes place in our lives throughout one year as we dream our most glorious dreams into existence. Blurring the distinctions between opera, our dreams, and our lived realities, the year-long nature of the performance recontextualizes our daily lives as sites of magic/opera, a ritual we continuously perform, dreams we perpetually manifest. Together, we’re dreaming futures with us in them in direct resistance to ableist systems of oppression and eugenics that celebrate our Disabled deaths.
Land Acknowledgement: Massapequas
