However, in the words of June Jordan, “We always have choices. And capitulation is only one of them.”

The powers that be also badly want us to forget that there was a moment—a long, two-year moment—when people felt that everything could be different, that revolutionary change was possible.

Some of us did not die. What are we going to do about it?

The weekly Crip News129 listserv is full of more events than I could ever go to.

“The future isn’t disabled, because they want us all to die.”

a friend said, I’m sorry you’re struggling. And I said, it’s not exactly that I am struggling—though sure, I am. But it’s more like, I am being completely remade by grief into a different person.

ELEGY FOR A MASK MANDATE

What can we grow out of crisis? I answer: The wild disabled futures we are making with the rest of our lives.

“Our struggle is also a struggle of memory against forgetting.” This is our disabled futurist struggle now too.