How Crips Confront Catastrophe(s)

join us for a conversation-communion on how crip creatives confront catastrophes: those of the past, those that occupy our presents and the ones yet to come. In a reality forever pockmarked by poly-crises of genocides, pandemics, and environmental catastrophes bred by a (settler)colonial, imperial and supremacist world order, we ask (with the knowledge that there is no /one/ answer): How are crips resisting, aggravating, upending these untenable worlds? How do we honour the time signatures of our crip bodyminds when movements, genocides, and wholesale abandonment ask for an urgency we cannot always offer? How and where have disabled, mad, d/Deaf and sick spoonies built (and re-built) crip-centric liberated zones? How do we architect non-siloed futures of radical togetherness in, borrowing Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's verbiage, the sacred organizing spaces of disabled homes and sanctuaries?

this conversation will be co-curated by crip-mad writers and artists Christina Oyawale and sama nemat Allah, in collaboration and discussion with Evelyn Pakinewatik, m.patchwork monoceros, Cease Wyss and Keimi Nakashima-Ochoa. We will also (inevitably, necessarily) lean on and ask for guidance from the wisdoms, gifts, pedagogies, offerings, and ever-glitching tech of our crip-mad ancestors and lineages: those who have survived catastrophes and those who cheer us on from sovereign ancestral lands.