Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s keynote and following Q&A from April 4, 2020 will remain available here on our site indefinitely. You can watch the recording with captions below! Please note that there is short intermission from 55:00-1:02.
“Every Time is Crip Time Now: Wild Disability Justice Pandemic Futures”
Keynote Description: As we meet from our very disabled vantage point of being home on our phones and computers as disabled people during a global pandemic, we can see how our disabled ways of being, organizing and creating are what has allowed us to survive this far and what will continue to keep us alive. What are the dangers, pleasures and opportunities of being disabled at this particular apocalyptic space and time? And how is disability justice movement, thinking and creative work support us in finding new ways to create a vibrant disabled future?
Referenced Texts
Below are links to texts referenced in Leah’s talk:
- Ellen Samuels’ “Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time”
- “Crip Infinity” originally published in Anomaly, #25
- “Walking Pneumonia”
- Tonguebreaker
To learn more about Leah, check out their website, which has information about their past and upcoming workshops and books, which include Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence with Activist Communities, and Bodymap: Poems.
Thanks to our Co-Sponsors: The Ohio State University Office of Diversity & Inclusion, the Disability Studies Program, and the Department of English.