Because the mountains we’re climbing are getting steeper every day. 🧵(3/3)

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Image description: A pink graphic line drawing on a white background, showing a figure with a stick and a backpack climbing a hill, beyond this hill the landscape has flattened out, with a pink gem-shaped logo for the Chronically ill Artists Network in the corner, and #ClimbingTinyMountains at the bottom. Black text in speech marks reads: “Fluctuation is not unreliability. It’s a reality of our lives. Planning with care makes it manageable”.

Access isn’t optional. It’s not a ‘nice to have’. It’s a right. If your event, residency or opportunity isn’t accessible to chronically ill artists, then it’s not for all artists. 🧵(1/3)

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What if we designed the arts with chronically ill people in the room from the beginning?

Let’s stop expecting chronically ill and disabled people to “fit in” to broken systems. Let’s build new ones. 🧵(2/2)

#ClimbingTinyMountains #ChronicallyillArtistsNetwork #CIAN

Image description: a pink graphic line drawing on a white background, with a figure climbing one of a series of 3 hills, with a pink gem-shaped logo for the Chronically ill Artists Network in the corner, and #ClimbingTinyMountains at the bottom. The black text in speech marks reads “That fear isolates us, but together we’re louder”

Share your thoughts and experiences on the isolation and exclusion faced by chronically ill artists, using #ClimbingTinyMountains 🧵(4/4)

#ClimbingTinyMountains #ChronicallyillArtistsNetwork #CIAN #DisabilityJustice

A pink graphic line drawing on a white background, showing a figure with a stick and a backpack climbing one of a series of 3 hills, with a pink gem-shaped logo for the Chronically ill Artists Network in the corner, and #ClimbingTinyMountains at the bottom. A quote in black text and speech marks reads: “We are not lazy. We are navigating inaccessible systems, one tiny mountain at a time”

Have you faced barriers in the arts because of chronic illness? Use #ClimbingTinyMountains to share your story.

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Join us as we tell the truth about what it’s like to survive and create in a world that wasn’t built for us. Because when the arts aren’t accessible, everything takes more energy, more time, more courage. 🧵(3/4)

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Everyday, chronically ill creatives face invisible barriers - inaccessibility, stigma, financial precarity, & an industry that still sees us as a “risk”.

But we are not broken.
We are tired of climbing alone. 🧵(2/4)

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Climbing Tiny Mountains - a campaign by & for chronically ill artists. All this week we will be posting about the experiences of chronically ill artists, generously and courageously shared with us by our members. 🧵(1/4)
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