Leroy Moore: Speaking out for disability rights
Leroy Moore is a writer, poet, community activist, and a hip-hop and music lover. He was born with cerebral palsy, and has dedicated much of his writing and activism to disability rights. He co-founded Krip-Hop Nation, a movement that uses hip-hop as a means of expression for people with disabilities.
Moore is currently a doctoral student in linguistic anthropology at UCLA. He writes and delivers lectures and performances that reflect the intersections between racism and ableism, in the United States and abroad. His most recent book “Black Disabled Ancestors” came out in 2020. He also chairs the Black Disability Studies Committee for the National Black Disability Coalition, and he co-founded the performance art collective Sins Invalid.
Moore will also join the UCLA Arts public discussion series "10 Questions" on Monday, Oct. 18 to help us answer the question “How do we remember?” alongside two fellow panelists: author, poet, and dancer Anurima Banerji, and Angela Riley, an Indigenous rights scholar and the Potawatomi Nation Supreme Court Chief Justice.
In this interview with the UCLA Arts podcast "Works In Progress," he reflects on his life-long activism in racial and disability justice, and how hip-hop provided a platform for that movement.
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