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Been Outside: Adventures of Black Women, Nonbinary, and Gender Nonconforming People in Nature
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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.
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha • The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs
[This is she]
she’s young, she’s old
she’s fun, she’s bold
she laughs and she cries
but her faith never dries
she is troubled and broken
but life is awoken
from the bottom of she
We were all made to be
sun, and grass and morning air
light dances and plays with her hair
from new beginnings to tragic ends
she marches, she marches, she marches
the road is tough
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What can we grow out of crisis? I answer: The wild disabled futures we are making with the rest of our lives.
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha • The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs
You can dent the soul and bend it. You can hurt it and scar it. You can leave the marks of illness upon it, and the scorch marks of fear. But it does not die, for it is protected by La Loba in the underworld. She is both the finder and the incubator of the bones.