The vivid grove sets the intention for radical inclusivity at all levels of practice. Disability justice, as defined by Bay Area queer of color disability performance group sins invalid, is a practice that "values accessibilty, self determination, and the expectation of difference." From the perspective of the vivid grove, there is infinite room to expand how these values are enacted, ranging from specifics to mission: location, language, physical expectations, physical intentions, languaging, the visual construction of the website, sound, descriptions, and fundamentally with practices that are based in the multiplicity of embodiments, in ways that exposes and dismantles the implicit hierarchies of supremacy and industrial conceptions of "health," "fitness," and what it means to live in a body. Disability Justice is embedded in all the senses. This work is inspired by the radical practices of organism such as sins invalid, Mia Mingus, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, so many of my students, and many many others. Taking this life perspective into something even more explicitly creative, I quote my late, dear friend and collaborator Neil Marcus, who so powerfully stated "disability is an art." May the potency of embodied practice support liberation, rather than be a tool of keeping up the values it purports to transform. Resource: https://www.sinsinvalid.org/blog/10-principles-of-disability-justice
