eco-crip learns


Resources for sick artists and writers
to digest and know our dignity, access rights, intersectionality and health justice



“Pressure is hard to notice unless you are under pressure.
A system can put some bodies under pressure without that pressure being experienced,
let alone witnessed by others who are not under that pressure.
—Sara Ahmed, An Affinity of Hammers, 2016”

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“We are dreaming all wrong.
Art is otherwise, all that is left, able to lift the grime and glitter caked under eyelids and halt, thereby, our crippled, crippling dreaming.
Truth is otherwise. It risks all to be born, to be unstoppably, irresistibly alive.
                —Toni Morrison, The Foreigner’s Home, 2018”



            Practical things to learn about access





          Theoretical / dialogic things to read and listen


  • On Rehearsing Access: Making space for non-normative time with Access Riders. - Ren Loren Britton, 2024, Futuress.  

  • - Mia Mingus (all posts are fab)


     


              Longer read 



    • Jennifer Mullan,
    Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice, 2023.

    • Eli Clare,
    Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation. Duke University Press, 2015.

    • Jasmine E. Harris,
    Reckoning with Race and Disability, 2021.


               Language is also a place of struggle. (bell hooks)

    Crip Time 
    - A flexible standard for punctuality, as an accommodation for a person with a disability

    - Crip time is flex time not just expanded but exploded; it requires reimagining our notions of what can and should happen in time, or recognizing how expectations of “how long things take” are based on very particular minds and bodies.
    (Alison Kafer)

    - “Crip time means listening to the broken languages of our bodies, translating them, honouring their words. - Ellen Samuels”

    - More Glossary
     



    I’m specifically interested in the intersection of disability with race, queerness, and liberation work. I see health justice as a process of healing from the dehumanizing effects of colonisation, imperialism, state-sanctioned violence, and structural oppression. I’m always open to learning about my blind spots
    —so please, let me know.