Collective Loss Adaptation Project (CLAP)
The Collective Loss Adaptation Project (CLAP) honors the stigmatized and disenfranchised losses of disabled people, as well as sharing the wisdom of disability culture to help all people adapt to a rapidly changing world. CLAP makes use of art, culture, and media, as well as Indigenous and diaspora spiritual traditions to tend to the collective losses of this moment including: pandemic, climate crisis, and political violence.
Our work draws on the principles of Disability Justice including intersectionality, leadership of the most impacted, a commitment to cross-disability solidarity, wholeness, sustainability, and collective liberation. We are led by a multi-racial, multi-religious, cross-disability steering committee that reflects the vibrancy of both disability culture and the landscape of contemporary grief work. Meet the CLAP steering committee here
Photo description: Three friends in brightly colored clothes sit on a couch together. They have lovely bright red, green, and nail polish and their genders are ambiguous in this picture.
CLAP is currently working towards these programs:
A Disabled COVID-19 memorial installation to honor disabled losses in the pandemic due to the virus, medical neglect, and despair. This project is made possible by Alice Wong and the Disability Visibility Project
Disabled disenfranchised loss zoom support groups that offer facilitator led care to disabled mourners in a non-judgmental, access-oriented caring setting, as well as access to a peer-community of disabled mourners.
CLAP is a project of Svara: A Traditionally Radical Yeshiva. Svara’s mission is to empower queer and trans people to expand Torah and tradition through the spiritual practice of Talmud study.
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