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.

treating environmental harm is a long-term, enduring, and at times incurable task.

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.

In these trails we can see disability as bodily injury impacting many species. We can see the way that injury is shaped by social inequality. We can see disability as a lived experience leveraged to provide evidence of harm and wrongdoing, or, in contrast, as a moralizing concept utilized to direct blame back onto the injured themselves.

the medicalization of “impairment” originated in part in changes to the US life insurance industry that emerged after the abolition of slavery.

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

“You might wonder, ‘What the hell is “The Future Is Disabled”?’ ” Wong wrote. “Does it sound ominous? Hopeful? Inevitable? What does it mean?”50 While the hashtag was clearly meant as a way of challenging eugenicist legacies—a way of claiming the future for disabled people and disabled perspectives—I hear the slogan through an ecological frame, as

environmentalism of the injured—less a name for a specific movement than a name for a thread of resistance that has long existed in environmental arenas.

“The denial of Indigenous sovereignty and disablement of Native people/land for the sake of capitalist profit accumulation is foundational to the structure of the U.S. state.”