What does it mean to curate from a place of Disability Justice? 

Curating Disability Justice centers the principles of the Disability Justice movement, which uplifts the experiences and knowledge of BIPOC and LGBTQ+ disabled folx, through a community-based curatorial model. Led by these principles, this is curating not done by and for the curator or the art institution as principal arbiter of knowledge but done by and with the disability community itself.

In this lecture, Cooley will explore how the principles of Disability Justice have been and continue to emerge as a new contemporary art practice and will also explore how to center those principles in curatorial collaboration with community members. Ultimately, curating Disability Justice is a process that elevates the disability community through representation and alters ableist structural biases of curating and the art institution itself.