Getting Emotionally Naked: Notes on an Activist Voice
I just submitted a paper to Atlantis with my good friend and colleague from SF State’s Sexuality Studies graduate program Sonny on coalitional politics and embodied scholar-activist efforts to further...
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Learning about KripLove from Krip Hop: Part 3 – KripLove is THE Revolution
Krip Hop Nation in ATL and other events like it (such as the DaDa Fest in England next month) subvert the traditional model of disability awareness by encouraging people in the crowd to acknowledge and...
View ArticleLearning about KripLove from Krip Hop: Part 4 – What’s in a Word?
One of the big issues before and after the Krip Hop Nation event was the language of the movement – specifically the use of the word ‘Krip.’ Many scholars and activists in the disability communities...
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What I Would Tell My Teenage Self about Sexuality
Recently a Canadian press asked me to write about what I would tell my teenage self about sexuality for an anthology for radical teens. I expanded what I wrote here to avoid copy-write issues and...
View ArticleFinding YOUR krip body desirable: notes on internalized ableism and self-lovin’
Dear KripFamily, Sending you kripLOVE, first of all. Thank you for allowing me into the circle of those you trust with a part of you that you don’t share with many others. I write to you from a place...
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Wandering Upon a Gimp in the Park
After a 3.5 hour commute from DC to Penn Station, my crip comrade drove me to my crip sister Sunaura’s apartment. Our first call of duty for the afternoon was to take our service dogs (which we adopted...
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