What does it mean to make disabled art space that is richly Black and brown, poor, cross-abled, with childcare, cheap, and moving at the slow, sick, canceling, Access-A-Ride-broke-down pace of our bodies? Often, it means not producing at the “hot shot,” “ambitious” able-bodied pace of abled arts practice, even abled QTBIPOC practice. Are we seen as less serious because of that? How can we keep insisting on our slow-moving, strong, and vulnerable SDQTBIPOC arts practice? This chapter is still being written.

— Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (35%)