crip environmentalism,

Hughes spokespeople and city health officials stated at public meetings that although people in the area were disproportionately becoming sick, it was not a result of pollution. They were, according to city officials, “genetically susceptible to illness,” given to poor reproductive choices, and suffering the consequence of poor diet and lifestyle.

Understood through a disability lens, desynchronization is a form of communal multispecies crip time, a planetary performance of the erratic and unpredictable shapes and relations injured time takes.

“fossil-fueled ableism.”

Environmentalists rarely stay with disability long enough to even ask how people and environments coexist with injury, let alone how this living-with generates particular values, politics, and modes of engagement.

This lack of protection is no doubt partially to blame for the fact that 22 percent of samples of our nation’s groundwater come back positive for chemicals at levels that are recognized as concerning to human health.19

“What happened to you?,” if asked at all, seems to be presented solely to be followed by “Can you prove it?”

But can a waterbody be sick? Can an aquifer be disabled?

we were all trying to believe that nothing this important is beyond our control.