My Liberation Work has been Damn Ableist
After a few years of being deep in [mostly queer, mostly POC] farming and organizing work in Turtle Island, I developed debilitating chronic illness in 2024, partially caused by my work. My illness forced me to reckon with how my own ableism was ruining my life, and how the ableism in my work was at the center of many of our failures. First by force and then by choice, I took a giant pause to rethink my approach. My Liberation Work has been Damn Ableist is a multigenre illustrated chapbook that shares my rethinking so far. My intentions are (1) for other disabled people (or anyone whose body has needs, yes that’s you) to feel companionship; (2) for other landworkers and organizers to think about the ableism in our work and why it matters; and (3) for all of us to dream up anti-ableist (as in successful, compelling, sustainable, anticapitalist, fun) land work and organizing.You can purchase hard copies of the zine here, and you can read and accessible digital version of the zine here.