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Fund Desire Path.

Desire Path is an ongoing interactive art work and research project of The Curiosity Paradox, which is a for-profit entity. This project is fiscally sponsored by a non-profit, which means donations to this project are tax-deductible.

To help Desire Path Project continue to take shape, please consider making a donation of any size. If you are a funder who wants to learn more about this project, we would love to connect. Please contact us.

 

Donate Online

To send us a tax-deductible donation online, go to the Curiosity Paradox Projects funding page on Fractured Atlas. If you encounter any access issues with their platform, please email us.

Instructions

Go to the Curiosity Paradox Projects profile page on Fractured Atlas.

Choose whether you would like to make a monthly or one-time donation.

Set a donation amount.

Fill in your donor info.

Then fill in your billing info, and that should be it!

Ways To Get Involved.

Please consider taking part in the Desire Path Project in any of the following ways.

Use, Remix, and Share Our Content

All the content in this website, particularly the Flower Arrangements, Flower Cuttings, and Other Bodies are free to use or remix under a Creative Commons BB-CY license. Basically, make sure you credit the Desire Path Project and any other listed contributors when using this content. Thanks!

If you are an artist, curator, author, or producer who wants to exhibit this work, we would love to connect. Please contact us or our contributors.

Nominate an Access Artist (Including Yourself)

We want to continue to make Flower Arrangements and more art about Access Art. So if someone you know (including yourself) is practicing Access Art who you think would like to be part of this project, please reach out.

Support Our Audience.

One way we practice Access Art is to invite people who engage with our work to join our platform to share their work and suggest ways they would like to be to resourced.

In addition to our Conversation Contributors, this is a growing list of people who registered for our launch event and wanted to share their work and/or donation links. We do not necessarily endorse every page, and encourage you to do your own research about them. That said, please consider supporting their work through donations and engagement.

Do you want to be on this list or change how you are represented here? Please let us know!

Art, Activism, and Accessibility

Disability Justice Dreaming from Rebel Sidney Black

Social Audio Description Project Cooperative

Detailed Accessibility List from Dusana Bohm

Wry Crips, Disabled women’s theatre in the Bay Area

Working Draft Website from Deanna Yadollahi

Pill Joy, Pill Organizers that Make Illness Fun from Thredd

Architectural Thesis on Spatial Inclusion, from Bailey Bernheine

Pockets Change, Financial Resilience Through Hip Hop Pedagogy from MC Dyalekt

NeuroSpicy Networking Group on LinkedIn

DesertFlowerArt on TikTok

CripCrap Media on Instagram, and CripCrap Media Website

Che Che Luna Instagram and Website, Pleasure Activist and Educator

Professional Pages and Online Shops

Susannah Mars – Website

Ager Pérez Casanovas – Website

Desert Flower Arts / @desertflowerarts in Instagram

Sarah Bellam’s Bakery and Workshop – Website

Drag Queen Clare Apparently – Online Shop

Museum of Dead Words – Website

Curious Preservation Society – Instagram

Lydia X. Z. Brown – Website

Fundraising and Resourcing

Che Che Luna – Venmo

Jaqui Parker – My needs are met right now unless someone wants to give me a car. (Contact through The Curiosity Paradox)

Lydia X. Z. Brown – PayPal

Muni K — Venmo, PayPal. For internet, food and grocery delivery, transitioning expenses for f to m, multiply disabled, chronically ill, ND Muslim person

Stacey Mayfield — Venmo. I'm currently taking payments to help pay for full-spectrum doula training to serve physically disabled/chronically ill and/or queer-identifying folx.