Sublime

Mia Mingus wrote one of my favorite pieces about crip futures in Octavia’s Brood, where disabled people escape eugenicist genocide on earth to create a loving, traumatized disabled planet of collective disabled farms that receive crip infants.

I had a writing and money-making practice that allowed me to be disabled. This was a miracle.

Laura Hershey. Leroy Moore. Qwo-Li Driskill. Aurora Levins Morales. Billie Rain. Dani Montgomery. Nomy Lamm. Cheryl Marie Wade. Emi Koyama. Pat Parker. Tatiana de la tierra. Raymond Luczak. Anne Finger. Leslie Feinberg, who died of Lyme disease. Peggy Munson. Beth Brant. Vickie Sears.

I always prioritize how people feel.20 Is it a pleasure to be with each other? Does the agenda or space allow for aliveness, connection, and joy? Is there a “yes!” at the center of the work? There are so many things that are violent, offensive, unbearable. An embodied “no” is so justified—but I don’t believe it moves us forward.

“Yes!” has a future.