Healing AdVentures

07/21/2025

07/21/2025

This webinar will feature survivors and subject matter experts speaking on the disproportionate impacts of s*x trafficking on the Black community.

07/20/2025

July RTAG General Meeting

This is a forum where riders can provide input and feedback regarding accessible transportation. The group meets with the MBTA, the T's Department of System-Wide Accessibility (SWA) and The RIDE.

Date: Thursday, June 17th, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Location: Virtual

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/cELTbuAHQS2WzLo_BXfPtw #/registration

Agenda
1. Welcome & Introductions
2. Zoom Directions
3. RTAG Update
4. SWA Updates
5. Feedback Session: SWA
7. The RIDE Updates
Spare Software and Demo
8. Feedback Session: The RIDE
9. Closing Remarks

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing Zoom access information about joining the meeting.

RTAG meetings are accessible to people with disabilities and those with limited English proficiency. American Sign Language (ASL) will be provided for this meeting. Other accessibility accommodations and language services will be provided free of charge, upon request, as available.

If you have any questions or to request a reasonable accommodation or language services, please contact Kat at rtagboston@bostoncil.org or by phone at 978-893-8100.

07/20/2025

White people: What new ideas or insights did you find in this?

(All are welcome to comment. I encourage White people here to read and reflect and share in the comments.)

I’m breathing deeply as I write this. What I’m writing about is charged. I feel this energy in my body. It’s a heat in my throat and a rumbling in my belly. It’s an intensity that’s frustrated that…

07/19/2025

Cultivating Authentic Representation in Dance by Lauren Wingenroth

Characters with disabilities are still frequently played by performers without those identities on Broadway and beyond. This type of simulation can perpetuate harmful ideas about disability, and deny opportunities to disabled artists. “There’s a huge problem with people trying to mimic movement of disabled people without having the lived experience of being in the world as someone who shows up in that way,” says Raquel Meseguer Zafe, co-artistic director of UK-based Candoco Dance Company, which centers artists with disabilities. “It’s not authentic, and I don’t understand why we’re still doing it.”
https://dancemagazine.com/disability-dance-representation/ .tab=0

From left: Alice Sheppard and Laurel Lawson of Kinetic Light. Photo by Nathan Keay ©MCA Chicago, Courtesy Kinetic Light. Image description: Alice Sheppard and Laurel Lawson fly through the air in their wheelchairs, upside down, arms outstretched and curved. Projected patterns swirl below them. Alice is a multiracial Black woman with short curly red hair and coffee-colored skin; Laurel is a white person with cropped teal hair.

07/19/2025

The R-word isn’t just outdated, it’s harmful.

Too many people with intellectual and developmental disabilities have grown up hearing it used as a punchline, insult, or a label to dismiss and dehumanize them.

In our newest blog, people share the real impact this word has had on their lives. Their stories are powerful, painful, and honest—and they show exactly why this word needs to go.

Read their words. Feel their lived experiences. And then make the choice to never use it again and to say something when others use it: https://bit.ly/46eCLLw

07/18/2025

🪘Sory Diabate will be performing in the Feet Keep The Beat Festival Showcase Performance: LINEAGE on Friday, August 1st at 7pm! Secure your tickets today and don’t miss out!
https://the-center-for-arts-at-the-armory.ticketleap.com/feet-keep-the-beat-performance-showcase-lineage/

Sory Diabate, originally from Bamako, Mali, comes from a long line of Djelis (griots) and began drumming in the early eighties, as an apprentice with Sidiki Camara. In Mali, Diabate was a member of Troupe Pionna, and a principal drummer with Troupe Doumba, Troupe Districte de Bamako, and Troupe Sewa. In 1997, he became Assistant Director of Troupe Sewa and traveled extensively throughout Mali, researching in depth the origins of traditional rhythms and dances whose authenticity is preserved in the smaller villages. In addition to the djembe and dun dun, Diabate plays the tama, or talking drum, the bara and the bondiala. Prior to coming to the U.S., he conducted percussion workshops for students visiting Mali from all corners of the world.

Diabate has performed nationally with Sambalolo, Group Badenya, Timinadi, Under the Sun Dance & Drum, Spirit of Africa, and Troupe Sewa directed by Joh Camara. He has taught workshops in North Carolina, at West Virginia University, Brown University, and SUNY Purchase and has performed at the Wang Center for Performing Arts, The Dance Complex, Harvard, MIT, Wellesley College, among others. Diabate is also the founder and Director of Benkadi Drum & Dance.

07/18/2025

07/18/2025