A recap from week one of South By Southwest!

Creating In Chaos: The Art of Viral Activism in a World on Fire with @sidmarcos, @feministabulous, @waltermasterson, and @jburstofa!

A panel held by @passionfruit4us for @sxsw 2025.

Thank you to all who came out, we’re already looking forward to next year!

In the summer of 2024, during the backdrop of the Paris Paralympic Games, Cripple Productions hit the road across Europe—Amsterdam, Paris, and London—for a bold event series interrogating sport, sex, and the cultural mythology of the nondisabled body.

Through panels, community gatherings, and embodied conversation, we unpacked what it means to play, to perform, and to exist in a world that turns disabled people into metaphors. We questioned who sport is really for, why Paralympians don’t end up on cereal boxes, and what it means when the “perfect body” is always just out of reach.

It wasn’t a celebration. It was a reckoning.

A three-day weekend in San Diego celebrating the life, work, and wild spirit of Judy Heumann—and honoring those carrying her legacy into the now.

We kicked off with Crips & Shit Cocktail Hour, a classic Friday night hangout with drinks, snacks, and unapologetic crip joy. Saturday brought the Judy Heumann Honoree Symposium, featuring interviews, award presentations, and a panel on allyship, all held at the iconic Indoor Sports Club. We closed the weekend under the stars with a community screening of Crip Camp at our 100-year-old disability rights center.

It was part tribute, part takeover—and fully powered by the community Judy helped build.

In collaboration with Cripple Productions, artist and disruptor @chellaman curated a night of pure, unfiltered joy—through the lens of disability.

Fourteen disabled visual and performance artists took the stage and space, channeling grief, rage, tenderness, and celebration into a closing night that felt like a beginning. The result? A sold-out, standing-room-only night of unapologetic expression, cripped beauty, and sensory overload—in the best way.

No pity. No permission. Just Pure Joy.

In the heart of San Diego stands the Indoor Sports Club—a 100-year-old disabled social club and a living monument to radical community care. Cripple Productions is partnering with the ISC to archive its legacy and spark its future.

We’re preserving its history, yes—but we’re also cracking the door open for the next generation of disabled movers, shakers, artists, and organizers. This isn’t just a collaboration. It’s a passing of the torch.

Our NOT SO SPECIAL film production crew hit Austin for South by Southwest, joining forces with @onportrait_ for a panel on accessibility in film—what’s broken, what’s performative, and what actually works.

We didn’t show up to pat anyone on the back. We showed up to talk real access, real representation, and how disabled filmmakers are reshaping the damn industry.