![]() I wrote pieces that were tools we used to help create the first Creating Collective Access network, an experiment in access crip made by and for QTPOC disabled people. Writing from bed is a time-honored crip way of being an activist and cultural worker, not often acknowledged by the mainstream but whose lineage stretches from Frida Kahlo painting in bed to Grace Lee Boggs writing in her wheelchair at age ninety-eight.Īnd disability justice was giving birth to itself as a movement I got to be part of it, from bed, and so did the pieces I wrote. I did so alongside many other sick and disabled writers making culture. ![]() I wrote in old sleep pants, lying on a heating pad, from the hours I spent in my big sick-and-disabled femme of color bed cave. When I moved to Oakland in 2007, I started writing from bed. ![]() ![]() Preface: Writing (with) a movement from bed ![]()
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