Crip Kindness

Disabled people have developed ways of being together that recognize people’s inherent worth and values that each individual has to offer. Join us for a discussion about how crip kindness and community care can be transferred to everyday life.

Discussion includes:

  • Definitions of disability.
  • Definition of crip and reason for using the word and concept of crip .
  • Exploring the idea of a Crip Doula.
  • Exploring why crip work is necessary.
  • Creating support systems, care networks, and communication webs.
  • Self-care versus community care.
  • Definition of kindness and how it applies to disability, disabled people, and crip work.
  • Utilizing crip philosophies to challenge “norms”, such as what we consider good behaviour and professionalism – and how these “norms” harm people with disabilities.
  • Ways to move forward in a shared path to better meet the needs of the collective, respect and value what each person has to offer, and recognize the inherent worth of every person.


LET’S’ Crip Kindness workshop are created, researched and facilitated by those who identify as crip.

Our lived expertise is vital to properly representing gender and sexuality identities.

 

Workshops can be customized and tailored in length.
Book by contacting us at hello@ConnectWithLETS.org or by phoning 778.723.5387

 

Marsha P. Johnson, shown on this slide in a rare colour photo, is smiling at the photographer, a cigarette in her hand as she sits on a stoop in pink leggings, green pants, a beige patterned jacket, a red scarf, and a sparkly pink hat.
Marsha P. Johnson, shown in a rare colour photo. Photographer unknown. Photo was taken in 1982. Though history rarely mentions it, Marsha P. Johnson, best known for her role in Stonewall, was also a disability activist . Marsha P. Johnson said “I’ll always be known [for] reaching out to young people who have no one to help them out, so I help them out with a place to stay or some food to eat or some change for their pocket. And they never forget it. A lot of times I’ve reached my hand out to people in the gay community that just didn’t have nobody to help them when they were down and out.”  Marsha is an example of Crip Kindness in action.

“Heather is passionate about the topic of disability awareness and their enthusiasm helps to encourage participants in believing that by working together we can create a more accessible, equitable, and just world.

I feel equipped and motivated to move forward and put into practice that which I learned from Heather.

I highly suggest Heather as an educator and workshop facilitator. I contemplated that which was covered in the session long after the workshop. I look forward to participating in future workshops by LET’S.”

Adrienne Neil
Disabled person and workshop participant