“The abled world and the hearing world will do anything to forget about disability and deafness.”
A Moment of Liberation
Four Genies
“Our lives are being impacted in ways as different as the chasms of race, class, gender, colonial status and all the other disease vectors of injustice can make them. Crisis under capitalism is the great amplifier, not the great equalizer.”
Of Winds and Borders
The other morning as I left my house, the temperature was zero degrees Fahrenheit. This was a relief. It meant it had warmed up 22 degrees since the previous day! The Polar Vortex, […]
Monsanto in the Mirror
One of the great inventions of the past hundred and fifty years is the rear-view mirror. It permits us to move forward while remaining aware of where we have come from. As […]
Climate Change, Climate of Fear
A giant moose puppet, lumbers across the Mississippi River over Minneapolis’ Stone Arch Bridge. A serpentine pipeline slithers behind, complete with a black trash-bag oil leak spewing from a gash in […]
Running in the Promised Land
I hit the hard streets of Chicago running. They were literally hard. I was literally running. The mountain community that had been my running grounds until that point is covered with a […]
Escape from Candyland
Eight years ago this month I walked away from King Sugar. I was at an addiction conference on the Lac du Flambeau reservation in Wisconsin and had stepped into the hallway for […]
I Come from the Sky
I grew up at the edge of the largest body of water on Earth. All the water we drank, cooked and washed with came from it as did the water with which […]
Community art as medicinal practice
I am what’s known as a visual artist. At least that’s the story that’s told about me. I tell a different story about myself. In it I am a healer. What […]
Ricardo Levins Morales
Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio 