Crip Queer Stuff: bit.ly/QueerCrips
which is a link shortener that goes to this google doc: Crip Queer Stuff - Google Docs
snapshot of this doc below
June 7, 2020: Disabled folks organized and led a more accessible protest. ID: A number of folks walking and in wheelchairs hold Black Lives Matter signs. Many have bandanas or masks. They are of various races. source
Crip Queer Stuff
Share: bit.ly/QueerCrips
A list of links to media by or for queer and/or trans and sick and/or disabled people. Every link, unless otherwise stated, is made by or linked to someone who is BOTH queer and/or trans AND sick and/or disabled.
#BlackLivesMatter so all links that go to work by Black folks are highlighted pale yellow.
Support Black queer sick & disabled folks by buying their stuff, supporting their work, sending them $$ and not asking them to hold or respond to white questions, guilt, or defensiveness.
Compiled by Hester (white, transmasc, autistic, disabled, I’m on twitter)
Send any edits or suggestions to hester@rabbitrabbitstudio.us
(This is starting to make the rounds which while I’m excited about I did not expect! Per a suggestion made to me I am actively looking for Black SDQT collaborators for this doc please request access or email me if this is you.)
Word Choice
I’m using the word “Crip” - paraphrasing from Elizabeth Chandler’s “Cripping Community” article linked below - to refer to people who love disability, think it’s hot, and don’t wanna kill or cure it. I’ve also heard that it connotes a certain political-ness. Disability as a political identity, as a place from which to get radicalized. I don’t have a source for that idea right now. Oh, also, crip is a reclamation of the word cr*pple, which is a slur. Don’t use crip for someone else unless they’ve asked you to. More on ableism in language on Autistic Hoya’s blog here.
Whose work gets included?
I’ve included works by people who explicitly name (in their bios or content) illness, pain, chronic conditions, d/Deafness, or disability and am inclusive of mental, physical, visible or invisible illness and disability. I’ve included works by people who name themselves in their bios or content as queer, trans, bisexual, gay, lesbian, pansexual, or use any other terms that identify them as being a part of the LGBTQIAPP+ community. I try to link only to public profiles.
Politics
I’ve been prioritizing linking to media that describe and build on disability justice. “Disability justice also acknowledges that “ableism helps make racism, christian supremacy, sexism, and queer- and transphobia possible” and that all those systems of oppression are intertwined.” (linked wikipedia article, citing Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha).
I also look for links that follow the social model of disability (one where it is understood that it is society that is disabling, not our bodies). This of course gets complicated for folks with certain kinds of fatigue, pain, or other situations where a medical model of disability may also be relevant.
Everyone, regardless of fatigue or pain level, communication style, motor function, etc… deserves access to community, family, media, communication, food, home, fun, support, sex (if they want it), & interdependence. Most of what bars us from accessing any of this is not our bodies but an ableist, anti-black, racist, settler/colonialist, imperialist, increasingly fascist, trans-antagonistic and queer-antagonistic society.
How’d you organize the links?
Links are listed in alphabetical order, more or less, and organized by “type” (articles, books, social media pages etc.). This is not a “Definitive Guide™”. Just a list of things I’ve read or want to read, social media profiles I follow and learn from, and organizations and groups I know of that are run by or prominent leadership of queer and trans sick and disabled folks. It will be forever updated/updating. Any additions (plug yourself!) are welcome.
Articles
Some starting places
10 Principles of Disability Justice, Sins Invalid - Sins Invalid
An open letter to White disability studies and ableist institutions of higher education, Angel L. Miles, Ph.D., Akemi Nishida, Ph.D., Anjali J. Forber-Pratt, Ph.D. - Disability Studies Quarterly
Accessing competent care is another hurdle Black folks shouldn’t have to navigate, Amber Butts - BlackYouthProject
Black #Disability History” Brad Lomax, Black Panther - Revolutionary Black Nationalism and Disability Power, Bradley Lomax - Lead on Network
Disability Justice, a working draft, Patty Berne - Sins Invalid
Disability Solidarity: Completing the “Vision for Black Lives, Patricia Berne, Kylie Brooks, Neal Carter, Patrick Cokley, Candace Coleman, Dustin Gibson, Timotheus Gordon, Jr., Keri Gray, Christopher DeAngelo Huff, Cyree Jarelle Johnson, Lorrell D. Kilpatrick, Carolyn Lazard, Talila A. Lewis, Leroy F. Moore, Jr., Vilissa Thompson, Alexis Toliver, Heather Watkins - Harriet Tubman Collective
General Articles
Changing the Framework: Disability Justice, Mia Mingus - Leaving Evidence
Cripping Community, Eliza Chandler - nomorepotlucks
Crisis makes clear who can afford to survive (and who cannot), Amber Butts - BlackYouthProject
Disease is not a metaphor, Cyree Jarelle Johnson - BGD
Disability in an Ableist World, Lydia Brown - Autistic Hoya
Freedom for Some Is Not Freedom for All, Alice Wong - Disability Visibility Project
Feeling the Weight: Some Beginning Notes on Disability, Access and Love, Mia Mingus - Leaving Evidence
My life is more disposable during this pandemic, Elliot Kukla - NYT
No one is obligated to remain: Consent, agency & supporting loved ones who want to let go, Amber Butts - RaceBaitr
Separation From The Black Community Since Slavery: Black Disabled Folks, Leroy Moore - Poor Magazine
Toward a Crip-of-Color Critique: Thinking with Minich’s “Enabling Whom?”, Jina B Kim - Lateral
Yup. Non-profit culture and performative activism perpetuate ableism and anti-Blackness, Amber Butts - Black Youth Project
On Media
Finding Dory, Disability Culture, and Collective Access, Alice Wong - Disability Visibility Project
This ‘Raising Dion’ story-line is a powerful lesson on consent, disability and possession, Amber Butts - RaceBaitr
A Mutant from Planet Cripton, An Origin, Alice Wong - Nerds of Color
Guides
Accessibility in the Arts: A Promise and a Practice, Carolyn Lazard - Recess New York
Ableism/Language, Lydia Brown - Autistic Hoya
Interviews and Portrait Pieces
Anita Cameron Discusses Race, Disability, Sexuality, and Being a Woman, Dominick Evans interviewing Anita Cameron - Crip Crusader
Krip-Hop Nation’s Leroy F. Moore Jr. is a born fighter, Denise Sullivan - SF Examiner
Meet Lilac Maldonado, Ducky Jones, Sade Musa, Laurent Corralez and Nami Hatfield - Voyage LA
Stacey Milbern, a Warrior for Disability Justice, Dies at 33, Neil Genzlinger - NYT
What Disability Justice Activist Stacey Park Milbern Taught us, Devin Katayama interviewing Andraéa Lavant - KQED
Books
#HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice, Sarah J. Jackson, Moya Bailey, Brooke Foucault Welles - Charis Books and More
All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism, - amazon
Black Disabled Art History 101, Leroy Moore - University Press
Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure, Eli Clare - Duke University Press
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha - Arsenal Pulp
Cancer Journals, Audre Lorde - indiebound
Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, Alice Wong - Penguin Random House
Fading Scars: My Queer Disability History, Corbett O’Toole - amazon
More Than Organs, Kay Ulanday Barrett - Sibling Rivalry Press
Medecine Stories, Aurora Levins Morales - Duke University Press
Never Coming Home, Tyler Vile - Bookshop
Octavia’s Brood, Walidah Imarisha, adreinne maree brown (featuring stories by Mia Mingus and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha) - bookshop
The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me, Keah Brown - indiebound
Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People, Alice Wong - Disability Visibility Project
Sick: A Memoir, Porochista Khakpour - bookshop
Surviving the Apocalypse Together, Elliot Fukui - MadQueer
Skin Tooth and Bone, Sins Invalid- 1st Edition (Free) - 2nd Edition ($7 to download)
Slingshot, Cyree Jarelle Johnson - Night Boat
Tender Points, Amy Berkowitz - Night Boat
Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction, Sami Schalk - PDF or Duke Press (Dr. Schalk is a queer non-disabled ally. Also, while I’ve linked a free PDF, if you are white, please purchase this book.)
Videos
My Body Doesn’t Oppress Me, Society Does - Youtube (audio, captioning)
Ableism is The Bane of My Motherfuckin’ Existence - Youtube (audio, captioning)
Crip Camp - netflix (audio, captioning)
Happy Birthday Marsha - amazon prime (audio, captioning)
Inclusive Design SME series featuring Antoine Hunter - vimeo (audio, captioning, audio-only-descriptions, ASL)
Intersections of Disability Justice and Transformative Justice, Elliot Fukui, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha - youtube (audio, captioning)
Cripstory, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha - Youtube (audio, captioning, ASL interpretation)
Disability Justice Collective - CLPP Conference Presentation - youtube (audio, auto generated captioning)
Feel the Beat, Antoine Hunter - youtube (audio, captioning)
State Abuse Continues Against Black Disabled People 2020, Leroy Moore - youtube (audio, auto-generated captioning)
Rabbi Julia Watts Belser on Jewish Story, Crip Culture, and Disability Arts - contemporary jewish museum (audio, captioning)
Social Medias
This is not an exhaustive list, just a list of people I personally foumnd wandering about the interwebs. This list could be practically infinite. Plug yourself, your friends, your enemies, whoever! (email for additions and edits at the top of the doc). Edit: folks have begun to suggest specific people who I am adding.
Personal pages
Anita Cameron - twitter - website
Andraéa LaVant - Twitter
Dr. Angel Miles - Twitter
Antoine Hunter - website - twitter
Alice Wong - twitter
Annie Segerra - instagram - youtube - facebook
Aurora Levins Morales - website
Aaron Phillip - instagram - twitter
Amber Butts - twitter - facebook - medium
ashleigh j mills - Twitter - Instagram
Allie Cannington - twitter
Amy Berkowitz - website
Brunem Warshaw - instagram
Dr. Bianca Laureano - facebook - instagram
Brittany Wilson - Instagram
Cal Montgomery - facebook - website
Calvin Arium - instagram
Caleb Luna - instagram - twitter
Chella Man - instagram
Cory Silverberg - facebook - twitter - instagram - website
Cyree Jarelle Johnson - instagram - twitter - website
Corbette O’Toole - website
Coffee Spoonie - twitter
Dustin Gibson - website - twitter
The Disability Enthusiast - twitter
Devri Velásquez - Instagram -Twitter
Elliot Kukla - muck rack
Eli Clare - website
Erica Lupinacci - twitter - instagram
Elliot Fukui - website
Ethan Parker - facebook - website - instagram
Eva DoCouto Kane - instagram
Ericka Hart - instagram - twitter - podia - podcast
Imani Barbarin - twitter - website - facebook - instagram
India Harville - website - facebook - instagram
Inés Ixierda - instagram - etsy
Iris (DID system) - Twitter - patreon
Jillian Mercado - instagram
Jasi Brathwaite - Instagram
Johanna Hedva - instagram - website
Julia Bascom - twitter
Keah Brown - twitter - website - instagram - facebook
Kay Ulanday Barrett - instagram - website
Leroy Moore - facebook - instagram - website - twitter - youtube
Noel’le Longhaul - Instagram
Lydia X Y Z Brown - facebook - instagram - website
Lola Ursula - instagram
LB Lee - dreamwidth - itch.io - patreon
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha - instagram - website - facebook
Lilo - Twitter
Nyle DiMarco - instagram
Mia Mingus - twitter - instagram - website
Mateo Guadalupe - instagram - etsy
Miss Major - instagram - facebook - website
Dr. Moya Bailey - website - twitter
Neve - instagram - patreon - website - facebook - twitter
Nomy Lamm - website
Ray Borene - Twitter
Rvby Allegra - instagram (personal) - instagram (art)
Riah Person - Twitter - Website - Youtube
Sonalee LCSW MEd - Instagram
Shawné Michaelain Holloway - Instagram - Website - Twitter
Syrus Marcus Ware - website - twitter
Shooglet - instagram - website
Sky Cubacub - instagram - facebook - website
Sandie Yi - website
Tyler Vile - Website - Twitter - Facebook
TL Lewis - website - twitter - instagram - facebook
TransFat - Instagram
Tourmaline - instagram - twitter - website
Valerie - twitter
Void femme - Twitter
Vanessa Rochelle Lewis - instagram - facebook
Walela Nehanda - twitter - instagram - patreon
Meme / Community / Organization Pages
Access Centered Movement - instagram - facebook
Autistic Women and Nonbinary Network - website - facebook
Autistic Self Advocacy Network - website - twitter
Autistic People of Color Fund - Website - Facebook
Black Disability Collective - twitter - facebook group (open to black disabled people only)
Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective - website
Comrade Closet - instagram - website
Crip Camp Virtual Experience - website - twitter
Disability Justice Culture Club - facebook - instagram
Disability Solidarity - twitter
Deafies in Drag - facebook - instagram - youtube - website
Drag Syndrome - instagram - website
Disability Visibility Project - website - podcast - twitter
Disability Justice Collective - facebook (been inactive for a year or so)
Fat Lib Ink - instagram - website
Hot Crip - instagram
Healthy Multiplicity - website
Harriet Tubman Collective - twitter - tumblr
Krip Hop Nation - website - youtube
Lutte Collective - Instagram - Website
LA Spoonie Collective - facebook - website - instagram
Mask Oakland - instagram - twitter - website
Neuroqueer.nonsense - Instagram
Pls Don’t Touch My Cane - instagram
Poor Magazine - website - instagram - facebook
Queer Appalachia - instagram - facebook - website
Sick and Disabled Queers - facebook group (open to sick/ disabled queer/ trans people only)
Sins Invalid - website - twitter - instagram - facebook
Suffering the Silence - facebook - website - twitter
Trust Me I’m Sick - facebook - instagram - website - youtube
Urban Jazz Dance Company - website
YO Disabled and Proud - instagram - twitter - website
Further Readings on Disability
(no guarantee on if the authors of works listed are sick/disabled or queer/trans tho many are)
Disability Justice Reading List - Seattle Public Library
Disability Studies readings on intersections of disability and race - Google Doc (this one is super academy-y so, idk, just a warning lol)