cripchick's blog

Cripchick is a powerchair-roaring disabled queer woman of color activist and writer. She grew up in North Carolina and lived on the world's largest US Army military installation for 18 years. After becoming politicized around disability, she went from being the to secretary of her county's Teenage Republican club and attending the Bush inauguration in DC to lefty organizing around the interlocking nature of ableism, racism, heterosexism and capitalism. After pouring the last five years of her life into organizing with the Disabled Young People's Collective, she is currently taking a break from traditional organizing to write, make media and deepen relationships. She works for a national organization run by and for youth activists with disabilities and does consulting work on the side.

Cripchick has been doing most of her blogging as of late on To The Other Side of Dreaming, an epistolary journal between her and Mia Mingus, another queer physically disabled Korean American woman of color. Their blog chronicles both Mia and cripchick's move from the South to the San Francisco Bay Area and what it has meant to build home with each other. To find out more, please visit To the Other Side Of Dreaming.