Table of Contents
Thinks and Acknowledgements 13
Introduction 17
Writing a Disabled Future, in Progress
Part I Disability Justice in the End Times
Chapter 1 "We Were Maybe Not Going to Save the World, but We Were Going to Save Each Other": How Disabled Mutual Aid Is Different than Abled Mutual Aid 51
Tiny Disabled Moment #1 Small Moments of Disabled Knowing 71
Chapter 2 Interdependence Is Not Some Giant Living in the Hillside Coming Down to Visit the Townspeople: The Church of Show the Fuck Up, in Real Life 75
Tiny Disabled Moment #2 "There Is No Disabled Community Here" 106
Interlude
Pod Mapping for Mutual Aid, by Rebel Sidney Fayola Black Burnett 109
Chapter 3 Disabled Grief Technologies: Disability Justice Future-Building in a Time of Mass Grief 112
Recipe 126
Rosewater for Crying Eyes
Chapter 4 Nobody Left Behind and Wanting to Run Like Hell: Disabled Survival in Climate Crisis 128
Chapter 5 Dipping the Resistance: No Revolution without Us 140
Recipe 152
Stacey Soup
Chapter 6 Still Dreaming Wild Disability Justice Dreams at the End of the World 154
Tiny Disabled Moment #3 The Free Library of Beautiful Adaptive Things 165
Chapter 7 The Future Is Disabled (with Karine Myrgianie Jean-François, Nelly Bassily, Sage Lovell, Sarah Jama, and Syrus Marus Ware) 168
Part II The Stories that Keep Us Alive: Disability Justice Arts in the Interregnum
Chapter 8 Twenty Questions for Disability Justice Art Dreaming: A Winter Solstice Present 177
Chapter 9 I Wanna Be with You Everywhere (And I Am): Disability Justice Art as Freedom Portal 183
Chapter 10 Disability Justice Writing, the Beauty and the Difficulty 197
Chapter 11 Autistic Long-Form, Short-Form, No-Form, Echotextia: Autistic Poetic Forms 212
Chapter 12 Cripping the Book Tour 220
Sample Access Rider 236
Part III The Disabled Future
Tiny Disabled Moment #4 ADA 30/DJ 15 243
Chapter 13 Disabled Secrets 249
Chapter 14 What Really Happens in DJ Groups 258
Chapter 15 Home Is a Holy Place: The Sacred Organizing Spaces of Disabled Homes 263
Tiny Disabled Moment #5 LL Comes to Me 276
Chapter 16 Loving Stacey: An Honor Song 280
Tiny Disabled Moment #6 Adaptive Trike 301
Chapter 17 Wild Disabled Joy: Disabled Pleasure Activism 305
Chapter 18 Wild Disabled Futures: The Future Is Now 325