if we open space for critical disability perspectives in these conversations, what could disability movements teach us about how to care for this vast web of disabled kin? About how to fight back against the economic forces that benefit from disablement?

disability scholars and activists often counsel an avoidance of stories that trace etiologies, mourning, or loss; we insist that diagnostic stories and medical terminologies are not the only stories there are to tell or the only languages in which to tell them.”

crip environmentalism,

From 1981 on, city officials would repeatedly tell the public that while the wells had been shut off because the groundwater had been contaminated, it was not a health concern.

focus on causation or diagnosis risks obfuscating all the other ways of understanding disability, including systemic discrimination and lack of access.

“More than three-quarters of the mass-produced chemicals in the United States have never been tested for their impacts on fetuses or children. That means they are being released in the environment with no consideration for how they will impact those who weigh, say, twenty pounds, like your average one-year-old girl, let alone a half-pound, like a

With this temporal understanding of disability as something that belongs to the past tense, it becomes difficult to explore daily issues of access, discrimination, and ableism.

Alison Kafer asks, “Can we imagine a crip interaction with nature, a crip engagement with wilderness, that doesn’t rely on either ignoring the limitations of the body or triumphing over them?”

by the 1930s, labor movements advocating for what historian Jennifer Klein identifies as “health security” in the New Deal era