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About
This is quite literally a “web log”. I write to record fleeting thoughts, all the words that fly away if you aren’t intentional about keeping pens and napkins handy. It amazes me to see what these words become when I string them together— who I become, how free I can feel when I see truth staring back at me, how much writing is a part of my process for navigating and understanding the world.
In addition to media making that I do for myself and with community, I am a youth organizer, a poet, a bird perched on the branches of many different communities. Just trying to find home.
& because everyone loves identity markers, i am:
a cripchick, a gimpgirl
a hyphenated corean-american
powerchair-roaring, vent-using disability activist
radical woman of color feminist
wannabe poet
army brat
internet media nerd
pansexual queer
young person/youth
mixed girlfree feel to email me at: consciouslycrip[at]gmail[dot]com
cripchick
Cripchick is a queer disabled corean-american living and loving in North Carolina. Cripchick is a 22 year old youth organizer who has been working in the youth arm of the Disability Rights Movement since high school. She is most interested in using poetry, community organizing and media as a way to cut through isolation that marginalized people often face. Cripchick is a radical woman of color feminist and believes in the power of people coming together.
you can say hi by clicking on the post titled and leaving a comment, emailing her at consciouslycrip[at]gmail
[dot]com, or on twitter.
A Few Projects Cripchick Is Involved With
Cripchick is facilitating a satellite campus in her local community for School of Our Lorde. School of Our Lorde is an effort to bring people together to study the poetics, pedagogy, politics and publishing of feminist warrior poet Audre Lorde. You can join an existing campus, participate by distance learning or start your own campus! To find out more, visit: http://summerofourlorde.wordpress.com/
Disability Justice Track at the Allied Media Conference
The Allied Media Conference is an annual gathering where artists, media makers and activists come together to talk media strategies for community building. Cripchick is working with other disabled people to create the first ever Disability Justice track--- a space where we people will dissect a disability justice analysis and have time to talk about the way disability shapes our work as cultural activists, media makers and activists. You can find out more at http://alliedmediaconference.org
Disabled Young People's Collective's first ever Activism, Community, Empowerment Summit
Cripchick is an active member with the Disabled Young People's Collective, a crew of disabled youth working to get free in NC. DYP is organizing a 6 day event in August for disabled youth between the ages 16-24 to come together and learn about disability justice, organizing, and community building. To get an application or find out more, visit http://thedypcollective.org
