“I refuse to participate in our own erasure,” queer disabled author Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha tells Jezebel about their new book.
Take the practice of mutual aid. According to Piepzna-Samarasinha, while anarchist philosopher Peter Kropotkin put a name to the idea that “cooperation, not competition, [is] the driving mechanism behind evolution,” disabled communities have been practicing these non-transactional ways of helping one another for centuries.
Disabled people have a lot of fun doing care stuff, and I think something that holds ableds back is thinking it’s either you being a saint or it’s going to be a bummer.For Piepzna-Samarasinha, practicing sustainable care means showing up when you can, in the ways that you can. It requires ditching the sainthood model and embracing the crip model, “where even five minutes counts.”
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