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cara page on creating our own wellness
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September 9th, 2009disability justice, linksthis 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
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this made me cry…thanks for posting it…mai’a
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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
mai'a September 9th, 2009 at 20:43