#criptiques

[technoccult]

Criptiques and A Dying Colonialism

Caitlin Wood's 2014 edited volume Criptiques consists of 25 articles, essays, poems, songs, or stories, primarily in the first person, all of which are written from disabled people's perspectives. Both the titles and the content are meant to be provocative and challenging to the reader, and especially if that reader is not, themselves, disabled. As editor Caitlin Wood puts it in the introduction, Criptiques is "a daring space," designed to allow disabled people to create and inhabit their own feelings and expressions of their lived experiences. As such, there's no single methodology or style, here, and many of the perspectives contrast or even conflict with each other in their intentions and recommendations. The 1965 translation of Frantz Fanon's A Dying Colonialism, on the other hand, is a single coherent text exploring the clinical psychological and sociological implications of the Algerian Revolution. Fanon uses soldiers' first person accounts, as well as his own psychological and medical training, to explore the impact of the war and its tactics on the individual psychologies, the familial relationships, and the social dynamics of the Algerian people, arguing that the damage and horrors of war and colonialism have placed the Algerians and the French in a new relational mode.

Read the rest of Criptiques and A Dying Colonialism at Technoccult

[wickedjr89]

Recent Reads #20 | 2019

[doorfus]

hey y’all! the beloved “my other disability is a bad attitude” by criptiques is available [for limited time] to buy again!!

[lifeinpoetry]

Free/Inexpensive/Small Press (Mostly Poetry) Books (2022/11/14)

Free Ebooks

From A to Z by Etel Adnan

A Spell for Living by Keisha-Gaye Anderson

This Body I Have Tried to Write by Ja’net Danielo

Criptiques, ed. Caitlin Wood

The Awful Truth by Diana Hamilton

Okay, Okay by Diana Hamilton

for the joy of it by anaïs peterson

Machete Moon by Arielle Cottingham

Dela Torre by Dani Putney

FeralScape by Michelle Detorie

Pay-What-You-Can Ebooks

Gay, Black, and Non-Binary Is by Prince Bush

sour milk by natali celeste tautou

Cisness or Pleasure by Alice Stoehr

What About the Rest of Your Life by Sung Yim

Prone to Separation by Mariel Fechik & Taylor Yocom

Inexpensive Ebooks

<personal fashion> by Sara Matson

Wikipedia Apocalyptica by Steven D. Schroeder

Seagull (Thinking of You) by Tina Satter

DEEP ELLUM by Brandon Hobson

Gravity by Ari Lohr

Agender Daydreams by Thokozani Mbwana

Drifting Bottles by Arden Hunter

PLACES by Charlie D’Aniello

From This Soil by Casey Bailey

DADDY ISSUES by Sal Kang

Stranger in the Pen by Mohamed Asem

The End, by Anna by A. Light Zachary

The Life of the Party Is Harder to Find Until You're the Last one Around by Adrian Sobol

Is God Is by Aleshea Harris

Brief Chronicle, Books 6-8 by Agnes Borinsky

Borrow/Read Online

BEHIND TEETH by Emily Brandt

Small Press Ebooks (not on Amazon/Kobo/etc.)

Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn't My Rapist by Cecilia Gentili

gospel of regicide by Eunsong Kim

Beast Meridian by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal

You Da One (2nd edition) by Jennif(f)er Tamayo

These Days of Candy by Manuel Paul López

Indictus by Natalie Eilbert

Transgressive Circulation: Essays on Translation by Johannes Göransson

GeNtry!fication: or the scene of the crime by Chaun Webster

Slim Confessions by Sarah Minor

[SQUELCH PROCEDURES] by MLA Chernoff

claus and the scorpion by Lara Dopazo Ruibal, tr. Laura Cesarco Eglin

Objects from April and May by Zena Agha

an identity polyptych by Tameca L Coleman

Free Audiobooks

preparatory school for the end of the world by nat raum

Small Press Audiobooks (not on Amazon/Kobo/etc.)

Porn Carnival: Paradise Edition by Rachel Rabbit White (also includes PDF)

[fickes]

Many people have been asking why they haven’t heard of Disability Pride Month before, where they can learn more, etc., so I am compiling some information!

Any info on Disability Pride Month:

-Disabled World article on disability pride--mentions the announcement of Disability Pride Month, then discusses disability pride as a concept

-S:US article on the first Disability Pride Month--it was first announced in NYC in 2015 to celebrate the ADA anniversary

-Tumblr post from last year with more reasons why disability pride matters

All the remaining articles I can find are redundant to these. Basically, the reason you haven’t heard of it before is that it was first announced just five years ago, it started as parades only in New York City, and it was the 25th anniversary of the ADA, so it was US-centric. But people around the world are taking hold of this celebration, and there’s no reason it needs to stay US-centric! So now I’m pitching in so that there will be a little less of the “why have I never heard of this before?” next time around.

I know July is also Lesbian Positivity Month, I know we still need to devote efforts to BLM (please prioritize BLM), I know it’s confusing that it’s called Disability Pride Month, but I didn’t invent the name and I didn’t choose the month (and there are only 12 months in a year) and heck, we are proud! We can share.

Some disability info resources:

-Tumblr post listing ways to educate yourself on chronic illnesses

-Tumblr post listing disabled literature (highly recommend Criptiques)

-Tumblr post explaining the Cripple Punk movement (by @cripple-punk-presents, who are the good people continuing what Tyler started)

-”Crip Camp” on Netflix beautifully demonstrates the humanity of disability (and is fun and hippie to boot)

And please, if you have any more, add them!

[dagenssvenska]

Blev nyligen diagnostiserad med autism och vet inte riktigt var jag ska vända mig/vad som händer nu. Kan du någon förening eller hemsida eller vad som helst dit jag kan vända mig (svensk då)? Ytterst förvirrad. Befinner mig i en ”ja, då vet jag varför - men vad nu då? vad ska jag göra med infon?” situation.

Känner tyvärr inte till någon svensk sida. Kanske kan leta efter någon facebook grupp?

Annars finns hashtaggen #actuallyautistic på diverse sociala medier. Och https://wrongplanet.net/ är en sida jag ser nämnd ofta, fast jag har aldrig själv använt den.

(Kan också varmt rekommendera böckerna “Loud Hands: Autistic People Speaking” och “Criptiques” om du inte redan har läst dem!)

[otherpplnation]

736. Emily Ladau

Emily Ladau is the author of Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally, available from Ten Speed Press.

Ladau is an internationally known disability rights activist, writer, and speaker. She is the editor in chief of the Rooted in Rights blog, a platform dedicated to amplifying authentic narratives of the intersectional disability experience. She also co-hosts The Accessible Stall, a podcast about disability issues.

Ladau's writing has been published in outlets including the New York Times, HuffPost, CNN, Self, Salon, Vice, The Daily Beast, Variety, and Marie Claire Australia. Her work is also included in the Criptiques Anthology and About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times. She has served as an expert source on disability issues for outlets including NPR, Vox, Washington Post, and Teen Vogue, and has been featured in a range of press outlets including Newsday, BuzzFeed, CBS News, and U.S. News & World Report.

A complete transcript of this interview is available at otherppl.com.

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The Microsoft videos that Emily references during the interview can be found here.

Other useful resources:

Ableist words and terms to avoid.

2021 working definition of ableism.

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[nanasstuffsposts]

#CRIPTIQUE💙

[qcrip]

15

five most influential books over your lifetime.

Criptiques (not really a book but an anthology so it counts right?)

Pansies by Andrea Gibson

Matilda by Roald Dahl 

Homework by Peter Cameron (technically a short story shh)

Your Beauty Mark by Dita Von Teese

Send me #s

[leeminholinoing]

hi!!!!!! I’m drunk I only ate and walked and (drank) all day. I see harry’s been criptique all day and yes my English is even worse when I’ve had a few drinks !!!

[youthincare]

The U.S. Department of Labor reports that men with disabilities are almost twice as likely as disabled women to be employed, especially in full-time positions. 

Women with disabilities faced an unemployment rate of 14.7% in 2012, nearly twice the national average of 7.9% for people without disabilities. 

More problematic was the labor force participation rate: Only 28.9% of women with disabilities were working or looking for work- less than half the national average of 63.6% in December 2012. 

(Men with disabilities fared slightly better with a still dismal unemployment rate of 14.5% and labor force participation rate of 34.4%).

- CRIPTIQUES: DISABILITY SHOULD NOT EQUAL POVERTY

[karliemarxx]

so thankful that this shirt exists

[flyingpurplepizzaeater]

People who say that everyone is a little autistic are usually nice people that I like, but I still think it is a strange thing to say. If everyone were even a little autistic, fluorescent lights would never have made it past the first round of quality control in any nation.

Elizabeth J. (Ibby) Grace, Criptiques

[andthenweloved]

[”The visual and political implications of using Frida Kahlo and her artwork to represent disability” by Stefanie Snider

“What should you call me? I get to decide: Why I’ll never identify with person-first language” by Emily Ladau

“The erasure of Queer Autistic people” by Alyssa Hillary]

The titles of some of my fav chapters from Criptiques.

[she-rocks-and-she-rolls]

There's a new anthology on disability out called Criptiques and I'm super excited to be a part of it! In it, I share my views on why I don't identify with person-first language. I'm featured along with tons of other amazing disability advocates, including flutterflyinvasion.

It's available for purchase on Amazon --> http://amzn.to/1pj8mSB

[Image descriptions: Three photos. Teal t-shirt that says Criptiques with Criptiques sticker and pins on top, next to blue Criptiques book. Criptiques books next to yellow flowers in blue vase. Book open to page that read "What Should You Call Me? I Get To Decide: Why I'll Never Identify With Person-First Language - Emily Ladau]