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aghhh.
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March 24th, 2009i love my peopledo you know how annoying it is to see groups with tons of money putting together things that you and all your friends did (and do) for free, but it’s not even close to what it could be? (heard someone refer to this as the “dis biz”, how fitting.) people see you as some disability support youth group and you have to remember to keep it hush and let them think that because if they really knew what you’re doing…well, with parents/funders/everybody in our biz, it wouldn’t be so easy anymore.
what does it mean to be queer when queer to you is this radical way of understanding your body and how people have been otherized but to everyone else it just means you like girls? the same with disabled. and radical women of color (i know my friends think i’m just this weird identity-crisising asian girl going off on shit all the time).
and how is it possible for a person (my mom) to bring back every story, every situation to the importance of not being cheap w/ conference food? you serve salad appetizers for dinner one year b/c you don’t have $ for expensive hotel food and they never let you forget…. (okay, and to be fair the whole bread& cheese sandwich fiasco last year…)
6 responses to “aghhh.” 
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It’s not just your mom with the conference or meeting food issue :). Biggest issue one hears about when running anything. People and food. issues. All I can say :).
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Yeah, the Yippies used to do this thing at conferences, called “Tai Chi breakfast”–which was stale coffee and toast while a guy sat in the floor doing Tai Chi and trying to get everybody to do it with him. Nobody did, it was too fucking EARLY for that shit!
For years, whenever someone had a bad meal, we called it “Tai Chi breakfast”…
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cripchick March 25th, 2009 at 22:37
LOL. so just theme your bad meals… hmmm this is something to think about
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“what does it mean to be queer when queer to you is this radical way of understanding your body and how people have been otherized but to everyone else it just means you like girls?”
omg. yes. yes.
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Meredith April 1st, 2009 at 01:43
“what does it mean to be queer when queer to you is this radical way of understanding your body and how people have been otherized but to everyone else it just means you like girls?”
YES. I’m here via Anna (Trouble in China) and I love your blog! Seriously, I just read back about five pages, and I had to hold myself back from fangirl comments all over the place. That quote really resonated with me as a bi woman and radical feminist though. I am not a woc, but I have other things that “other” me (mental health issues, “serious” ones [as in, medically serious and they affect my body, but I function!]).
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cripchick April 2nd, 2009 at 07:25
meredith, so glad to see you here!! i’ve wanted to click delete on things i’ve been writing lately but getting comments like yours stop me from doing so. hope to chat with you more, via comments or email. i think you’re bringing all the connection and otherizing that happens in.
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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.
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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
Alison Hymes March 25th, 2009 at 01:05