Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice Art Activism of Sins Invalid [Paperback]

In recent years, disability activism has come into its own as a vital and necessary means to acknowledge the power and resilience of the disabled community, and to call out ableist culture wherever it appears.

Crip Kinshipexplores the art-activism of Sins Invalid, a San Francisco Bay Area-based performance project, and its radical imaginings of what disabled, queer, trans, and gender nonconforming bodyminds of color can do: how they can rewrite oppression, and how they can gift us with transformational lessons for our collective survival.

Grounded in their Disability Justice framework,Crip Kinshipinvestigates the revolutionary survival teachings that disabled, queer of color community offers to all our bodyminds. From their focus on crip beauty and sexuality to manifesting digital kinship networks and crip-centric liberated zones, Sins Invalid empowers and moves us toward generating our collective liberation from our bodyminds outward.CAThe remarkable story of Sins Invalid, a performance project that centers queer disability justice.Shayda Kafai is an Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. As a queer, Mad, femme of color, she commits to enacting the many ways we can reclaim our bodyminds from intersecting systems of oppression. She lives in Pomona, California with her wife, Amy. As a longtime admirer of Sins Invalid, I am grateful for Shayda Kafai'sCrip Kinship: The Disability Art Activism of Sins Invalid. Crip wisdom and disability justice is what we need right now. Dreams, creativity, care ... all of these things are activism. The world can be better if we honor our bodyminds and move forward together. A must-read for anyone who wants to understand the difference between disability justice and disability rights. —Alice Wong, editor,Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century

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