Ariel Baska
@justaskabaska.bsky.social
Multiply Disabled Queer creator and navigator of the artistic multiverse.
Festival director of Access:Horror. Filmmaker, speaker, disability advocate.
Festival director of Access:Horror. Filmmaker, speaker, disability advocate.
Reposted by Ariel Baska
Did you hear? You can catch both halves of Blerdy in NY for @accesshorror.bsky.social this August.
www.dreadcentral.com/news/532499/...
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Access:Horror Film Festival To Return This Summer
Access:Horror Film Festival, focused on the intersection of genre and disability, returns this summer both in-person and online!
www.dreadcentral.com
May 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Did you hear? You can catch both halves of Blerdy in NY for @accesshorror.bsky.social this August.
www.dreadcentral.com/news/532499/...
www.dreadcentral.com/news/532499/...
My disabled life is worthy.
(After watching Deaf President Now! I am totally ready to fuck shit up)
(After watching Deaf President Now! I am totally ready to fuck shit up)
May 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
My disabled life is worthy.
(After watching Deaf President Now! I am totally ready to fuck shit up)
(After watching Deaf President Now! I am totally ready to fuck shit up)
Vacillating between wanting to plan a spring block party for my neighborhood and wanting to plan an emergency preparedness seminar…por que no los dos?
April 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Vacillating between wanting to plan a spring block party for my neighborhood and wanting to plan an emergency preparedness seminar…por que no los dos?
Building community is hard work, but I’m interested in doing it in intentional ways and proving that there is strength in love and care. This is what I have to hold onto now.
February 6, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Building community is hard work, but I’m interested in doing it in intentional ways and proving that there is strength in love and care. This is what I have to hold onto now.
A graphic reminder…
January 25, 2025 at 7:48 PM
A graphic reminder…
So thrilled to see horror well-represented in the Oscar noms with NOSFERATUBSTANCE. Tasty visual treats should get awards.
January 24, 2025 at 2:08 AM
So thrilled to see horror well-represented in the Oscar noms with NOSFERATUBSTANCE. Tasty visual treats should get awards.
Guess what time it is?
January 20, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Guess what time it is?
FYI I’m logged out of the META things but actually had to delete What’sApp and Messenger from my phone because it’s impossible to log out. Will I ever reinstall? Anyone’s guess!
January 19, 2025 at 3:09 AM
FYI I’m logged out of the META things but actually had to delete What’sApp and Messenger from my phone because it’s impossible to log out. Will I ever reinstall? Anyone’s guess!
I’m logging out of my Meta-owned accounts starting midnight tonight and encourage others to do the same to send a message. We owe neo-Nazi megalomaniac corporations zero attention at a time when they badly want it.
![[ID: on a background of America as if seen from a satellite with sporadic clusters of lights, white lettering reads: Lights out META. January 19-26, 2025. Log out of all META platforms for a week. FACEBOOK-INSTAGRAM-THREADS-MESSENGER-WHATSAPP-GIPHY-METAQUEST-RAYBAN META]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wylwbafbn2pcqiumfrdve3ac/bafkreibbt6jit7qlsovwju2oylrcqrqqv24oocedhwfyvlk2iaytu5haqa@jpeg)
January 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I’m logging out of my Meta-owned accounts starting midnight tonight and encourage others to do the same to send a message. We owe neo-Nazi megalomaniac corporations zero attention at a time when they badly want it.
My Favorite Films of 2024-ish
1. Flow
2. Love Lies Bleeding
3. A Different Man
4. Perfect Days*
5. The Zone of Interest*
6. Dahomey
7. The Substance
8. Femme
1. Flow
2. Love Lies Bleeding
3. A Different Man
4. Perfect Days*
5. The Zone of Interest*
6. Dahomey
7. The Substance
8. Femme
January 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
My Favorite Films of 2024-ish
1. Flow
2. Love Lies Bleeding
3. A Different Man
4. Perfect Days*
5. The Zone of Interest*
6. Dahomey
7. The Substance
8. Femme
1. Flow
2. Love Lies Bleeding
3. A Different Man
4. Perfect Days*
5. The Zone of Interest*
6. Dahomey
7. The Substance
8. Femme
Real talk: navigating inaccessibility is a huge part of my planning process every single damn time I leave the house. Navigating basic needs shouldn’t be this hard.
Disabled people should not have to plan outings around inaccessibility.
December 30, 2024 at 10:11 PM
Real talk: navigating inaccessibility is a huge part of my planning process every single damn time I leave the house. Navigating basic needs shouldn’t be this hard.
New Substack that’s my general reflections on the year - fairly proud of this one.
On Knowing Your Limits
Let the small, soft animal of your body love what it loves. But most importantly, be small. And soft.
arielbaska.substack.com
December 26, 2024 at 1:45 PM
New Substack that’s my general reflections on the year - fairly proud of this one.
So delightful to join Mo for this dive into one of my favorite films!
Well, well, well, here we are at our Season 1 finale of #FromInsidetheHouse - a podcast delving into women's trauma in horror cinema. I'm joined by the incredible Ariel Baska of @accesshorror.bsky.social as we dive into Christiane Génessier of Eyes Without a Face.
open.spotify.com/episode/2tMP...
open.spotify.com/episode/2tMP...
December 11, 2024 at 11:27 AM
So delightful to join Mo for this dive into one of my favorite films!
Reposted by Ariel Baska
One more thing... if you are a film critic, and you can decide what you cover, I beg you: include shorts in that coverage. Interview filmmakers of shorts. Write about them. Make space for them. Show others that they're important.
December 8, 2024 at 12:03 PM
One more thing... if you are a film critic, and you can decide what you cover, I beg you: include shorts in that coverage. Interview filmmakers of shorts. Write about them. Make space for them. Show others that they're important.
Compiling my best films of 2024, I am shocked how few horror movies are making it onto the list - do I need to cram in some last-minute viewing before I finalize? If so, what 2024 horror do you recommend?
December 7, 2024 at 3:40 PM
Compiling my best films of 2024, I am shocked how few horror movies are making it onto the list - do I need to cram in some last-minute viewing before I finalize? If so, what 2024 horror do you recommend?
Vote for my enormously talented friends and their exciting panel!
👀Voting opens for SXSW London panels tomorrow!
Black & Brown voices are missing in horror—as creators & critics. Systemic barriers limit our ability to shape the genre. Jordan Peele can't be our only way in! Let’s amplify marginalized voices & demand real change. Representation matters. #SXSWLondon
Black & Brown voices are missing in horror—as creators & critics. Systemic barriers limit our ability to shape the genre. Jordan Peele can't be our only way in! Let’s amplify marginalized voices & demand real change. Representation matters. #SXSWLondon
December 6, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Vote for my enormously talented friends and their exciting panel!
Reposted by Ariel Baska
In our house, we don’t do Elf on a Shelf.
December 5, 2024 at 7:13 PM
In our house, we don’t do Elf on a Shelf.
Reposted by Ariel Baska
Join us for Access:Horror Movie Night, a virtual event in partnership with the San Francisco Disability Cultural Center and Superfest - Friday the 13th, 4:30-6pm PT.
December 5, 2024 at 1:07 PM
Join us for Access:Horror Movie Night, a virtual event in partnership with the San Francisco Disability Cultural Center and Superfest - Friday the 13th, 4:30-6pm PT.
Just posted a new Substack on Knowing Your Values, plus an extra - an interview with filmmaker Jayro Bustamante about consent and care in his film RITA.
open.substack.com/pub/arielbaska
open.substack.com/pub/arielbaska
Ariel’s Brainings | Ariel Baska | Substack
As a multiply Disabled queerdo, horror filmmaker, podcaster, author, and speaker on accessibility, I am opening up my thinking and working process in the spirit of transparency and collaboration. Clic...
open.substack.com
December 4, 2024 at 4:31 PM
Just posted a new Substack on Knowing Your Values, plus an extra - an interview with filmmaker Jayro Bustamante about consent and care in his film RITA.
open.substack.com/pub/arielbaska
open.substack.com/pub/arielbaska
Reposted by Ariel Baska
ladies, gentlemen, non-binary pals, may I present to you: the greatest flex of all time
![the only quote on the IMDb quotes page for Béatrice Dalle
[asked how she seduced Rupert Everett] "Rupert is gay, but I am Béatrice Dalle."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rcpkzi26yhxfnhm5uy4lmcqe/bafkreievrrat7o2rskquoooqzxf6lplvcognwfq7shjfbylpyhoxwud3em@jpeg)
December 3, 2024 at 9:20 PM
ladies, gentlemen, non-binary pals, may I present to you: the greatest flex of all time
Down down down the road… down the witches’ road.
After binging 9 hours straight, I can’t get that damn song out of my head.
#SoQueerAndILoveIt
After binging 9 hours straight, I can’t get that damn song out of my head.
#SoQueerAndILoveIt
December 2, 2024 at 10:49 PM
Down down down the road… down the witches’ road.
After binging 9 hours straight, I can’t get that damn song out of my head.
#SoQueerAndILoveIt
After binging 9 hours straight, I can’t get that damn song out of my head.
#SoQueerAndILoveIt
I recently started a Substack to open up my process and my thinking about film and advocacy - this one is all about rejection.
On Rejection, Reflection, and Generative Conflict
What we do now determines everything.
open.substack.com
November 29, 2024 at 2:20 PM
I recently started a Substack to open up my process and my thinking about film and advocacy - this one is all about rejection.
Happy Thanksgiving- remember to bring this up at dinner!
November 28, 2024 at 6:27 PM
Happy Thanksgiving- remember to bring this up at dinner!
Hot take #1: It’s criminal the way they split up the song “Defying Gravity.” It utterly robbed it of its emotional power.
Hot take #2: The film marks a definite improvement in the Nessarose storyline, with (finally!) an authentically disabled actor - can’t believe it took them this long.
Hot take #2: The film marks a definite improvement in the Nessarose storyline, with (finally!) an authentically disabled actor - can’t believe it took them this long.
November 27, 2024 at 11:52 PM
Hot take #1: It’s criminal the way they split up the song “Defying Gravity.” It utterly robbed it of its emotional power.
Hot take #2: The film marks a definite improvement in the Nessarose storyline, with (finally!) an authentically disabled actor - can’t believe it took them this long.
Hot take #2: The film marks a definite improvement in the Nessarose storyline, with (finally!) an authentically disabled actor - can’t believe it took them this long.
Time to defy gravity. I’m sure there will be hot takes aplenty on my return. #disabilitywicked #disabledandwicked
November 27, 2024 at 7:31 PM
Time to defy gravity. I’m sure there will be hot takes aplenty on my return. #disabilitywicked #disabledandwicked