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Cripping Culture: A Journey into Disability Arts Heritage

  • 5 days ago
  • 1 min read

Author: Disability Arts Online


‘Cripping Culture: A Journey into Disability Arts Heritage’ is a major heritage project led by Disability Arts Online (DAO), launched in 2026.


The project aims to research and reveal the achievements of the disabled artists and activists who put disability rights on the map, from the late 1970s onwards. (Cripping, like queering, uses a reclaimed word to apply a disability lens to culture.) Over three years, Disability Arts Online will collect memories from people involved in the Disability Arts movement, capturing previously untold stories and shedding new light on key moments in its history. These be shared through an accessible digital archive, interactive timeline and podcast series.


Call Out for Contributions:

As part of Cripping Culture, we want you to share the most significant disability arts projects and events that you’ve been involved in or experienced. We want to know how they contributed to both your life and the Disability Arts movement. These will play an important part in the stories told through the Cripping Culture project, saving our heritage for future generations.


Your contribution could be about an event, show or exhibition you attended, something you read, an artist you met, an organisation you were involved with or anything else related to disability arts. You might be an artist, writer, producer, performer, curator, musician, activist or audience member. It doesn’t matter who you are, as long as you have a story to tell that involves disability arts in the UK, we want to hear from you.



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