cripchick's blog

this is why i believe in disability justice, why i am invested in us being our whole selves….

“i believe we need to be on a need-to-know basis with our bodies and lives. not rely on state mandates, not rely on the medical industrial complex to tell us what “wellness” look like. their system of wellness was never based on what we might desire for our bodies or our right to be well, it was based on our bodies being expendable and less than human. it was based on queer, women of color bodies, trans bodies, people with disabilities— based on that we were already seen as perverse and expendable. this public health system has built wellness on our back, on testing on our bodies. we need to exist in our whole spiritual emotional physical bodies. loving our many selves, redefining our power, redefining our sovereignty, our autonomy, our self-determination. to know and name our wellness, our desire, our safety, our collective power— that is what i believe we are here to do.” -cara page