crip is to disability what queer is to LGBT; while each calls upon and is informed by the other, cripness and queerness cannot be reduced to stasis, and both resist the respectability politics that work to make marginalized people prosocial or governable.193 In like manner, there has been concerted work over the past decade to explode the axes of c

Julia Bascom’s Just Stimming, Amy Sequenzia’s Non-Speaking Autistic Speaking, Ido Kedar’s Ido in Autismland, and Cynthia Kim’s Musings of an Aspie).

Disabled community and crip doulaing save lives, altering experiences of “fates worse than death” to lives that are precious and contain pleasure.