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Habit Forming Love: Day 3
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March 27th, 2009habit forming love
Dear organization I feel I should not name publically because of the content of this message,
I talked to your project director yesterday for over an hour. To see him working hard to create something so beautiful in an area that often feels so…hopeless makes me buzz with energy, like whatever we dream can be built. A huge reason I’m not that involved with state disability stuff anymore is because it often feels like we’re never gonna get it together, that it’s always going to be service provider-y and about money, never about coming together to be something. You wonder why youth are off doing their own thing (actually you probably haven’t noticed, it’s okay) and it’s because we don’t have time for your mess. We gotta get it together, people. We can live better than this. We have to.
Anyways. Sorry for the preachy rant, this is supposed to be a love letter. Your project director is working, working hard. I hope you will trust his vision for community. He is able to see potential, grab it, and force it to grow between the cracks— that’s his style. I have a lot of respect for him; he had opportunities to make a name for himself, do the national stuff, and instead he is here, sleeves rolled up, trying to making something out of all of this. He believes in you. Let’s believe in us, too.
Love,
cripchick-
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1 responses to “Habit Forming Love: Day 3” 
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‘Your project director is working, working hard. I hope you will trust his vision for community. He is able to see potential, grab it, and force it to grow between the cracks— that’s his style’
your love letters are making me feel so much love and bringing tears to my eyes. its so easy to overlook what i love about our community when i’m mostly getting annoyed with people. thank you (and lex) for reminding me that love is the movement and for showing me- so eloquently-what i have to love.
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 


Ryan April 3rd, 2009 at 22:27