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Poet, performer and disability culture activist, 1948–2013
Mine are the hands of your bad dreams Booga Booga from behind the black curtain Claw hands The ivory girl's hands after a decade of roughing it crinkled puckered sweaty and scarred A young woman's dwarfed knobby hands that ache for moonlight that tremble and struggle Hands that make your eyes tear My hands My hands My hands that grace your brow your thigh
My hands
Wade’s title in the printed text of her video Here (1991–92), where she performs it. The poem is often known as “My Hands”, from its refrain. Performed by Wade in the documentary film Vital Signs: Crip Culture Talks Back (1995). Also performed in Celebrating the Body Electric (1994), A Woman With Juice, Finding Words (1995) and Sassy Girl (1995).
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