Videos

This page contains recordings of Wade’s performances, a documentary she appears in, and two interviews, including her six-hour oral history.

Each video page says whether the video has captions. Videos play through YouTube or the Internet Archive.

• Vital Signs: Crip Culture Talks Back

  1995 · 48 minutes · Directed by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder

  The landmark documentary of disability culture, in which Wade performs “Gimp Hands” (“My Hands”).

• Here: A Poetry Performance

  1991–92 · 13½ minutes · By Cheryl Marie Wade

  Her first video: Wade performing nine of her poems.

• I’m the Woman with the Juice

  1993 · 29 minutes · Performed by Cheryl Marie Wade

  A 1993 spoken-word performance from the Moving Over the Edge shows.

• Interview with Cheryl Marie Wade

  Date unknown · 15 minutes · Interviewed by Pamela Walker

  Wade in conversation with the artist and writer Pamela Walker.

• Art and Activism: Pioneering Theater Artists with Disabilities

  2002–03 · 6 hours 9 minutes, in seven parts · Oral history interview

  Wade’s six-hour oral history for The Bancroft Library, the fullest record of her life in her own words.

• Self Advocacy: Freedom, Equality and Justice for All

  1996 · 28 minutes · Presented by Cheryl Marie Wade

  A history of the self-advocacy movement, presented by Wade.

If you hold material by Cheryl Marie Wade, or know of other recordings of her, please get in touch.