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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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‘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.
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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.
you can say hi by clicking on the post titled and leaving a comment, emailing her at consciouslycrip[at]gmail
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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
Ryan April 3rd, 2009 at 22:27