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Crip Kinship

The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid

The remarkable story of Sins Invalid, a performance project that centres queer disability justice.

In recent years, disability activism has come into its own as a vital and necessary means to acknowledge the power and resilience of the disabled community, and to call out ableist culture wherever it appears.

Crip Kinship explores the art activism of Sins Invalid, a San Francisco Bay Area-based performance project, and its radical imaginings of what disabled, queer, trans, and gender-nonconforming bodyminds of colour can do: how they can rewrite oppression, and how they can gift us with transformational lessons for our collective survival.

Grounded in the disability justice framework, Crip Kinship investigates the revolutionary survival teachings that disabled, queer of colour community offers to all our bodyminds. From their focus on crip beauty and sexuality to manifesting digital kinship networks and crip-centric liberated zones, Sins Invalid empowers and moves us toward generating our collective liberation from our bodyminds outward.

Includes a foreword by Patty Berne, co-founder, and executive and artistic director of Sins Invalid.

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Shayda Kafai

Shayda Kafai (she/her) is an assistant professor of gender and sexuality studies in the Ethnic and Women’s Studies department at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. As a queer, disabled, Mad femme of color, she commits to practicing the many ways we can reclaim our bodyminds from systems of oppression. To support this work as an educator-scholar, Shayda applies disability justice and collective
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Foreword by Patty Berne. 4 $0.40

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Topics discussed include crip beauty and sexuality, ableism, historical eugenics, assumptions about disabled folks, intersectionality, medicalization, disability justice, activism through … 14 $1.40

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Topics discussed include crip-centric approaches to activism and community, Crip-Centric Liberated Zones, Disability Justice, madness, decolonizing our bodyminds, institutionalisation of the … 15 $1.50

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Topics discussed include the role of love in social justice, collective liberation and freedom, love as a practice, accountability, and nature. 11 $1.10

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Topics discussed include storytelling as a form of activism, silencing of the disabled and ill, empowering and using one’s own voice, historical lineages of oppression, mapping community, … 15 $1.50

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Topics discussed include multidisciplinary artmaking, strategies of resilience, building disabled queer art-activism, crip time, Disability Justice and Transformative Justice, eugenics, and … 18 $1.80

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Topics discussed include education, communal awakening, reclaiming one’s own autonomy and history, education as a way towards justice and freedom, oppressive frameworks, creative workshops … 12 $1.20

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Topics discussed include kinship networks, online community, online romance, “crip emotional intelligence,” microcultures, and digital crip kinship during Covid-19. 15 $1.50

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Topics discussed include crip sex and sexuality, sexual liberation, historical sterilization of disabled and racialized populations, pleasure activism, and desirability. 19 $1.90

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Topics discussed include crip-centric reclaiming of beauty, desire and eroticism, decolonizing beauty, and beauty as liberation. 12 $1.20

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Topics discussed include the future of disability justice, rebirth and finding inspiration in a collective past, and the larger movement towards a more inclusive crip future. 11 $1.10

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Epilogue: "Why All This Matters." 6 $0.60