Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice and Art Activism of Sins Invalid

• Crip Kinship follows in the footsteps of Care Work, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s bestselling book on disability justice that has sold over 20,000 copies. It is the story of Sins Invalid, a San Francisco-based performance troupe a disability justice based performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and LGBTQ / gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalized.

• Disability activism has grown exponentially in the last few years; in addition to Leah’s books and activism work in the area of disability justice, there has also been other books such as Alice Wong’s book Disability Visibility, and the acclaimed 2020 documentary Crip Camp.

• Crip Kinship shows the intersectional relationship between disability, queer identity, politics & activism, and art & performance as revealed in Sins Invalid’s shows and ethos, “committed to social and economic justice for all people with disabilities.”

• Author Shayda Kafai is a queer, disabled woman of color (American-born Iranian). She is a faculty member at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona’s Ethnic and Women’s Studies Department. She befriended those in Sins Invalid after attending one of their shows and realizing she had “found my home.”

• Crip Kinship also shares common ground with Zena Sharman’s books on LGBTQ+ health, including this season’s The Care We Dream Of.

• Blurbs expected from adrienne maree brown (Pleasure Activism), Alice Wong (Disability Visibility), and disability justice advocate Lydia X.Z. Brown.

• In addition to online events with queer and disability organizations, we will promote the book directly to those in the disability justice movement (including academics).

© 2021 Arsenal Pulp Press (Ebook): 9781551528656

Release date

Ebook: 9 November 2021