Yes

I have a lot of tools. I have Ativan, prayer, counseling, an altar, DBT cards in my purse, and a shit ton of tinctures and crystals. Sometimes I grip my steering wheel and I have no idea where I am. I perform at Princeton, Hampshire, UC Davis. I am not a supersurvivor or supercrip. I’m a crip survivor with superpowers who has joy and sadness, rage and loneliness, grief and discovery. (239)
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarshina.
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice.

Yes is a work in progress.

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarshina warns us of the disability porn narratives of overcoming, or of ‘expressing the human spirit’—just another form of extraction and exploitation.

And yet, there is still much performance communities can learn from disability justice realities.

Yes is a work in progress.

There’s nothing wrong with wanting less pain, or a different experience of it. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to transform generations of passed-down trauma. But what gets more complicated is when those desires bleed into the ableist model of care that’s the only model most of us have for having more ease and less pain. That model and its harsh binary of successful and fixed or broken and fucked is part of what contributes to suicidality and struggle in long-term survivors.
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarshina.
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice.

Yes is a work in progress.