Crip Kinship

Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice and Art Activism of Sins Invalid | Shayda Kafai

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Disability justice activism via performance arts: that‘s the story of Sins Invalid & the subject of this eye-opening book. “There is nothing inherently wrong with us; there is, however, something wrong with the systems of oppression that systematically regulate us. We are beautiful & necessary in all our cripness, in all our colour, in our queerness, in our gender nonconformity & transness. We are necessary just as we are.”

Centique I‘ve started following an Instagrammer who is talking about ableism and ridiculing it. Great to see 😍tara_shett https://instagram.com/tara_shett?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= 2y

Lindy @Centique thanks for the link; I‘m now following her on Instagram too 2y

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Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice and Art Activism of Sins Invalid | Shayda Kafai

“I was searching for beauty and I named myself.”
—NEVE (pictured)
“When I say beauty, I mean a beauty based in our integrity, our lineages, our aesthetics … a beauty that radiates from our hearts, not from symmetrical bone structure.”
—Patty Berne

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Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice and Art Activism of Sins Invalid | Shayda Kafai

“Ableism is the bane of my existence. Ableism is … it‘s funny because people are like, ‘oh, I‘m so sorry that you‘re disabled.‘ And it‘s absurd! I kind of want people to be like, ‘I‘m so sorry that we live in ableism and I‘m perpetuating it every day.‘ That‘s an appropriate thing to feel shitty about.”
—Patty Berne

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Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice and Art Activism of Sins Invalid | Shayda Kafai

“What an amazing young lady. She makes you think about using your time wisely.[…]” Reading this was a gut punch. Jerika was meant to inspire the nondisabled to live life fully & without reservation. She was what disability activist Stella Young defines as ‘inspiration porn.‘ By objectifying her as inspirational, Jerika‘s only purpose was to galvanize the living. […] erasing her resilience, her Blackness & her queerness.

Centique Very much agree with this. I had my eyes opened many years ago when my friends child lost her leg and then her life to cancer. The strange “inspirational” comments, or “ill go home and hug my children tight” were just affronting and diminishing. Many people seem to need a tidy package for other peoples pain so they can put it away, shelve it. 🥲 2y

Centique And that “tidy package” is a white, cis construct in my opinion. Anything else seems to be erased - as the author says. I must read this book! 2y

Lindy @Centique “inspiration porn” is a new concept to me. This book surprised me several times in important ways. 2y

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Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice and Art Activism of Sins Invalid | Shayda Kafai

We do not need to meet a capitalist benchmark of success to be viewed as important. We are whole and valuable simply because we are ourselves.

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Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice and Art Activism of Sins Invalid | Shayda Kafai

“There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.”
—Audre Lorde

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Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice and Art Activism of Sins Invalid | Shayda Kafai

Perhaps the most compelling survival tool that disabled, queer, gender-nonconforming, and transgender communities of colour have is their dream work. Dreaming is not passive. In dreaming, our communities materialize a world where, through fury and love, transformation in all its rebelliousness thrives.

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