Sublime

(Being a disabled writer also means writing knowing that someone has probably written what you’ve said before—it’s just lost in a zine from twenty years ago, a crip first-gen website that didn’t get renewed, an out of print book.)

I identified three key ethical attunements that I came to associate with injury environmentalism. The first is a centering of the relational networks enmeshing bodies and environments. The second is a refusal to abandon those people and landscapes that have been harmed. The third is a commitment to challenging the social and economic inequities tha

The ‘beyond’ is neither a new horizon, nor a leaving behind of the past…. Beginnings and endings may be the sustaining myths of the middle years; but in the fin de siècle, we find ourselves in the moment of transit where space and time cross to produce complex figures of difference and identity, past and present, inside and outside, inclusion and e

I had discerned the ways in which we had been sculpted by a tradition given to us by others, a tradition of which we were either willfully or accidentally ignorant. I had begun to understand that we had lent our voices to a discourse whose sole purpose was to dehumanize and brutalize others—because nurturing that discourse was easier, because retai

The story of the TIAA pollution offers a way into a larger story about our past, our present, and our future—a future that is increasingly shaped by disability.

Most of us have been displaced from those cultures of origin, a global diaspora of refugees severed not only from land but from the sheer genius that comes from belonging in symbiotic relation to it.