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RESOURCES

This page is a work in progress and a living document – it will continue to grow and evolve throughout the project.

It includes academic works and community created resources, as well as works of fiction and non-fiction. 

For now, we offer some works that have been important to us in shaping and imagining this research.

Disability Projects & Activists

  • Access in the Making Lab

    AIM is an anti-colonial, anti-ableist, feminist research lab working on issues of access, disability, environment and care through creative experimentation.

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  • Disability Matters, iHuman

    A major six year pan-national programme of disability, health and science research from the University of Sheffield.

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  • Disability Visibility Project

    The Disability Visibility Project is an online community dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture.

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  • Healing Justice LDN

    Healing Justice Ldn is investing in the patterns, postures, and practices we need to enable reverberant impact throughout our communities.

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  • Sins Invalid

    Sins Invalid is a disability justice-based movement building and performance project that celebrates disabled people, centering and led by disabled Black, Indigenous, and people of the global majority, and queer, trans, and nonbinary disabled people.

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  • Black and white photograph of Mia Mingus sitting on a wooden chair in a lush garden. Mia wears glasses and a shirt and leans towards the camera laughing.

    Mia Mingus

    Mia Mingus is a writer, educator and trainer for transformative justice and disability justice. She is a queer physically disabled korean transracial and transnational adoptee raised in the Caribbean.

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  • Colour photograph of a smiling Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen in a snowy location. Jenni-Juulia wears bright colours, including an orange top and a purple bobble hat. Her mobility device is covered with crutches arranged to look like wings.

    Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen

    Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen is a multidisciplinary artist and disability activist. Her works deal with structural violence, discrimination framed as kindness and issues related to women with disabilities.

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  • Black and white photograph of Johanna Hedva sitting on a wooden chair. They wear a shiny leather jacket, black skinny jeans, and black platform boots. Their face, painted with thick black eyeliner and black lipstick, shows an enigmatic expression.

    Johanna Hedva

    Johanna Hedva is a Korean American writer, artist, and musician. Their work deals with death and grieving, illness and disability, as well as mysticism, ritual, and Ancient Greek myth.

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  • Alexis Pauline Gumbs

    Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a Queer Black Troublemaker, Black Feminist Love Evangelist and poet whose work is grounded in a community building ethic.

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  • Rachel House

    Rachel House is a queer artist and activist based in the UK.

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  • Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

    Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a writer, connector, memory worker, storyteller and artist.

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  • Tangled Art + Disability

    Tangled Art + Disability is an organisation based in Toronto dedicating to supporting disability-identified artists.

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Key Texts: Non-Fiction

  • Octavia's Brood

    Adrienne Maree Brown. (2015) Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements. Chico: AK Press.

  • Brilliant Imperfection

    Eli Clare. (2017) Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure. Durham: Duke University Press.

  • Exile and Pride

    Eli Clare. (2015) Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation. Durham: Duke University Press.

  • Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments

    Saidiya Hartman. (2019) Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval. New York: Norton.

  • Crip Kinship

    Shayda Kafai. (2021) Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice and Art Activism of Sins Invalid. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press.

  • Feminist, Queer, Crip

    Alison Kafer. (2013) Feminist, Queer, Crip. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

  • Crip Times

    Robert McRuer. (2018) Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance. New York: New York University Press.

  • The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice

    Nasar Meer. (2022) The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice. Bristol: Bristol University Press.

  • Experiments in Imagining Otherwise

    Lola Olufemi. (2021) Experiments in Imagining Otherwise. London: Hajar Press.

  • Black Madness :: Mad Blackness

    Therí Alyce Pickens. (2019) Black Madness :: Mad Blackness. Durham: Duke University Press.

  • The Future is Disabled

    Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. (2022) The Future is Disabled. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press.

  • Care Work

    Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. (2018) Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press.

  • Black Disability Politics

    Sami Shalk. (2022) Black Disability Politics. Durham: Duke University Press.

  • Bodyminds Reimagined

    Sami Shalk. (2018) Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race & Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction. Durham: Duke University Press.

  • Captivating Technology

    Ruha Benjamin (2019) Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life. Durham: Duke University Press. 

  • Decarcerating Disability

    Liat Ben-Moshe. (2020) Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 

  • Animacies

    Mel Y. Chen (2012) Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect. Durham: Duke University Press. 

  • Crip Genealogies

    Mel Y. Chen, Alison Kafer, Eunjung Kim, and Julie Avril Minich, editors. (2023) Crip Genealogies, Durham: Duke University Press. 

  • Beyond Survival

    Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. (2020) Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement. Chico: AK Press. 

  • Black Skin, White Masks

    Frantz Fanon. (2021) Black Skin, White Masks Translated by Richard Philcox. London: Penguin Classics.

  • The Cancer Journals

    Audre Lorde. (2020) The Cancer Journals. London: Penguin Classics.

  • The Right to Maim

    Jasbir Puar. (2017) The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability. Durham: Duke University Press.

  • Crip Spacetime

    Margaret Price. (2024) Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life. Durham: Duke University Press.  

  • Decolonizing Methodologies

    Linda Tuhiwai Smith. (2021) Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

  • Mutual Aid

    Dean Spade (2020) Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis (and the Next). London: Verso Books.

  • Menace to the Future

    Jess Whatcott. (2024) Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics. Durham: Duke University Press.

  • Disability Intimacy

    Alice Wong, editor. (2024)  Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire. New York: Penguin Random House. 

Key Texts: Fiction