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In Defense of Autistic Trans Self-Determination
On April 13th, 2023, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey put into effect an emergency order barring trans healthcare in his state. In 2023’s onslaught of trans-hating legislation, this is the first ban of gender affirming care for trans adults. This order is a perfect storm, a convergence of anti-trans hate and medical ableism that leaves […]
Living Altars: Disabled QTBIPOC Writers Transforming Pandemic Grief
National Queer Arts Festival June 15 2022
I curated and produced this show for NQAF’s 25th anniversary festival. With work by Meliza Bañales aka Missy Fuego, Stefani Echeverría-Fenn, Juba Kalamka, Naima Lowe, Lucia Leandro “LL” Gimeno, Stacey Park Milbern.
gender reveal podcast
https://gender.libsyn.com/episode-129-leah-lakshmi-piepzna-samarasinha with captions and my own current definition to the age old question “what is femme?”
KUOW convo with Shayda Kaftai and me about Crip Kinship. 1/26/22
“warning: this conversation contains explicit language” snort. https://www.kuow.org/stories/defining-and-celebrating-disability-justice-and-crip-centric-liberated-zones
“adaptive joy” from Orion Magazine’s fall 2021 disability issue.
split this rock “the future lives in our bodies: a Disability Justice & poetry roundtable
with me, Naomi Ortiz, Meg Day and Camisha Jones. June 2022.
The Future Lives In Our Bodies” reading and discussion March 13, 2022
Lambda, w/ Cyree Jarelle Johnson, Travis Chi Wing Lau and Meg Day. Captioned and w ASL.
poets.org disabled/Deaf poetry folio, curated by me
it’s here . published 3/22, as part of Poets.org’s The Future Lives In Our Bodies poetry of disability justice 2022 intitiative, and containing work by Raymond Antrobus, Jody Chan, Meg Day, Qwo-Li Driskill, torrin a. greathouse, Camisha Jones, Cyree Jarelle Johnson, Aurora Levins Morales, and Audre Lorde. my intro: “The poems in this folio are […]
“There are disabled people in the future”: Interview with me in Briarpatch’s Disability Justice issue, September 2022
https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/there-are-disabled-people-in-the-future this is a gorgeous interview with me by Rachel Jobson, with plain language translation, that appeared in this Canadian left/ labour magazine’s DJ issue. check it out!
The Future is Disabled
Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
Building on the work of their game-changing book, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Piepzna-Samarasinha writes about disability justice at the end of the world, documenting the many ways disabled people kept and are keeping each other—and the rest of the world—alive during Trump, fascism, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
suicidal ideation 2.0
queer community leadership, and staying alive anyway
(reprinted from Care Work, this was on my website for a long time; then I took it down when we rebooted my website. a lot of people have asked me to add it back, but for a while I couldn’t get into my wordpress. here it is again, offered in case folks need it.) suicidal […]