cripchick’s weblog

This page is constantly being edited, largely because I come back to this blurb and think “wow, that’s reaaally not very descriptive of who I am anymore”.

I don’t consider myself a writer but I write because seeing my experiences in words remind me that no matter how contradictory or complex they are, they are real and valid. I’m in the process of sifting through the bits and pieces of my [short, 21 year old] life so that I can better understand how my experiences shape me and are related to the intersectional nature of multi-identity people and politics.

Some of these said experiences include being a proud—but momentarily closeted—queer, being owned by the medical community as a disabled woman of color, interacting/working in the non-profit industrial complex [system of nonprofit that is used to control movement-building] as someone who does not believe this is the full answer, and being the child of the US Army while with the blood of colonized people runs through my veins. Needless to say, I’m also still in the process of relearning everything I’ve ever known and this process will probably never end.

I’m interested in liberation as it relates to taking back our bodies, media justice and its connection to power and art, and disability culture as what will sustain and bring people to the Disability Rights Movement. I use my blog not to put out brilliant pieces of writing (you’ll have to go to Sylvia or BFP for that!) but rather to meet and talk with people, record thoughts, and post poetry. A friend and I currently starting up a video project/documentary on the experiences of disabled women of color in the US— please contact me if you have ideas, suggestions, names, or want to be interviewed.

You can email me at consciouslycrip[at]gmail.com

2.) This is a hate-free zone so if you’re hating, start your own blog.

3.) Always remember cripchick is glad you stopped by. At least for the most part. Some of you can go away. And I say this lovingly.