Classes
Disabled Erotics
Ages 18 and up
October 14–November 4, 2024
6–9pm EST, Mondays
Crip Gimp by Mae Howard, 2023
Instructor
Mae Howard
Pricing
$350 (tuition assistance available)
Dates
14 October - 4 November
Disabled Erotics explores the connections among kink, BDSM, disability intimacy, and state-sanctioned debilitation. This course will explore the legacies of important kink scene figures like Audre Lorde and Bob Flanagan to consider how pain, labor, and excess relate to intimacy, inspection, and production. A culminating creative project will explore interdependence and the relationship between disability and BDSM.
This course will be held in person at the Abrons Arts Center with a hybrid option for those with access needs. Masks are mandatory. All courses will gather on Thursday November 14th for a culminating share out.
For a longer course description, please visit The School of Making Thinking’s page.
About Mae Howard
Mae Howard is a visual artist whose interdisciplinary approach extends across research-based, participatory, and collaborative projects ranging from lens-based media, sculpture, installation, and performance. Calling upon lineages of disabled/trans labor economies, Mae is interested in the embodied, fleshly, and material enmeshment of BDSM, the medical industrial complex, biopolitics, and disability. Their work explores the residue of discard, debilitation, and excess. They were a 2023-2024 fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program and a 2024 fellow in EmergeNYC through BAX Arts. They have been a resident at pocoapoco, Picture Berlin, and ACRE. Their work has been exhibited in New York, Berlin, Mexico City, and Philadelphia. Mae lives and works on occupied Lenape and Canarsie land.
Partnership
Disabled Erotics is curated in partnership with The School of Making Thinking.
Tuition Assistance
Abrons offers tuition assistance to any student whose household makes under $50,000 annually. Through our NYCHA Arts Initiative, classes are FREE for all NYCHA residents living in zip codes 10002, 10003, 10009, and 10038.
For courses offered in partnership with the School of Making Thinking, we also offer a sliding scale for Black People, Indigenous People, and People of Color.