Escaping the Imaginations of the Elite: Care, Control, and World-Making Beyond the Carceral State
What’s the purpose of what can be understood as abolitionist care when it comes to escaping the imaginations of the elite? Dr. Kylo Thomas writes on how creating new worlds outside of the medical and psychiatric industrial complex is no mean feat.
I, Robot: My visit to the Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha retrospective at Tangled Arts
Francesca Lewis narrates her experience driving a robot around the Tangled Arts gallery in Toronto and reflects on the radical power of celebrating crip life NOW.
Reclaiming Neuroqueer Bodies, Knowledges and Futures
Francesca Lewis shares her reflections upon attending the Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference (CNS) at the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University.
Imagining Palestinian Futures
Ingrid Young writes on the importance to be reminded of how the violence in Palestine done in the name of settler-colonialism - a long-standing system of oppression – is inextricably tied to disability justice.
Future Benefits
Donna McCormack writes on being a product of the benefit system, and what happens when you raise children mainly on benefits in a government insisting that disabled people’s lives do not matter.
Reading/Weaving Disability Futures: A Bibliographic Tour of Our Project
In this inaugural blog post, we weave some of the key texts that have animated our work so far into a bibliographic tour of Doing Disability Futures.