Monstrous Me
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2 fund applications
A horror-positive memoir of disability, disfigurement, and the monsters that saw me through it all.
AccessibilityDisabilityDocumentaryHorrorRepresentation queerarts-mediacommunity-economyfilm-storytelling
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About
An intimate documentary feature about my relationship to horror as a multiply disabled queer creator.
Impact
The film challenges how disability is perceived, and how those perceptions have shaped a truly awful and ableist reality for the disability community. I aim to empower with knowledge and horror.
Progress
A $20,000 grant from Virginia Humanities, a $15,000 grant from Southern Documentary Fund, a rough cut of the first 30 minutes, attaching a team of 60+ incredibly talented folks (including Lilly Wachowski) to bring this project to life.
Team
My unique “crip lens,” as a disfigured child on the deafblind spectrum who found agency in the face of Freddy Krueger. I could not see myself in representations of a community that had to inspire, overcome, or worse, disappear.
Funding
No displayed figures preserved for this project.
Fund applications
| Season | Fund | Status | Applied |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 5 | Film Fund for Independent Voices | submitted | 2025-05-01 |
| Season 5 | Harmonia Fund for Women in Art & Tech for Environmental Furtherance | submitted | 2025-05-01 |
Season totals as displayed on the platform's public accounting — not a statement of amounts paid out. V2 = Venus sales + Venus extras. The original page also broke each season down by fund drive and showed an Available (unclaimed) balance; that level of detail survives only on the preserved snapshots.
Leaderboard page (offline): https://artizen.fyi/projects/monstrous-me
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Top siblings
Projects that applied to the same funds.
| Project | Shared funds | Raised | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Futuro Nativo The intersection of indigenous culture; art, music & land projects in LATAM. Protectin | Film Fund for Independent Voices, Harmonia Fund for Women in Art & Tech for Environmental Furtherance | $233,879 |
| 2. | TUNER Tuner is a documentary-based XR experience where you have a custom alien encounter shaped… | Film Fund for Independent Voices, Harmonia Fund for Women in Art & Tech for Environmental Furtherance | $87,139 |
| 3. | Mango Magic Movement A cinematic movement for a more harmonious, healed and magical world. | Film Fund for Independent Voices, Harmonia Fund for Women in Art & Tech for Environmental Furtherance | $28,679 |
| 4. | iContact, the tactile tech opera An experimental immersive subversive tactile tech opera exploring the edges of bodies, ec… | Film Fund for Independent Voices, Harmonia Fund for Women in Art & Tech for Environmental Furtherance | $28,657 |
| 5. | adopt a tree Building climate-smart communities by teaching kids tree planting and agroforestry skills. | Film Fund for Independent Voices, Harmonia Fund for Women in Art & Tech for Environmental Furtherance | $14,777 |
| 6. | AIRWAVES: Ripple Effects A participatory archive: PULSO, an AI engine, reads what people send on migration and mem… | Film Fund for Independent Voices, Harmonia Fund for Women in Art & Tech for Environmental Furtherance | $11,712 |
| 7. | SOMOS - Archiarchy Invention Centre & Training Ground for Change-makers A radical village subverting modern culture by rewilding ourselves & the land. We com | Film Fund for Independent Voices, Harmonia Fund for Women in Art & Tech for Environmental Furtherance | $10,378 |
| 8. | Bro's Studio Empowering Artists and Preserving Bengali Heritage through Music | Film Fund for Independent Voices, Harmonia Fund for Women in Art & Tech for Environmental Furtherance | $6,631 |
Other funds of top siblings
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