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If you're disabled/chronically ill/neurodivergent/Mad OR care about folks who are, sign up to mentor for DisabledInSTEM! It's a really lovely program.

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October 7, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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Join me TUE, Sept Sept 29, 12-1.30PM UK time, for

‘And They Made Themselves A Land of Belief’, a writing wshop on disbelief as ill/disabled people, & ancestral + future sources of resistance.

In collab w Resting Up Collective + ORT gallery. #CripSky #CripLit 🤍

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'And They Made Themselves A Land of Belief' | Crip Resistance II
Join us for a generative writing workshop with acclaimed writer and artist Khairani Barokka, exploring disbelief placed on the unwell body
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September 22, 2026 at 12:26 PM
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CripSky

Lets get niggas down with the set!
arrogantade.blacksky.app Nino Green 🇳🇬 @arrogantade.blacksky.app · Aug 24
What BlackSky club would you start?
August 25, 2026 at 2:55 AM
kalmn.bsky.social
A nightmare where people keep building brand new buildings with steps on the main entrance FFS. And putting the staff bbq grill in front of the door at the top of the ramp on back. (Spectacle Shoppe on Grand Ave. Avoid.) #SaintPaul #Glasses #CripSky
January 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
aveheva.bsky.social
this makes me wonder: about 3/4 people i tell about my fibro respond with something like "i think i have a little fibro too". does this happen with allergies, or are those not an imitable disability?

🦴 🍜 🧀 #CripSky #Spoonie
aveheva.bsky.social Eeb is thy neighbor @aveheva.bsky.social · Jun 16
i feel like the only person on earth with a parmesan (tyramine) allergy even tho it's literally genetic
June 16, 2026 at 7:35 PM
grodriguezlemus.bsky.social
Thank you to the #DisSky #CripSky community for coming together to create this Crip & Disability Scholar starter pack.
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November 17, 2024 at 9:58 PM
parkerchronicle.bsky.social
Come for the crip ancestors (including disabled saints!), stay for the generative juxtaposition of medieval Christianity and Buddhism. #medievalsky #disability #cripsky
The cover image for Disability and Sanctity in the Middle Ages is a fragmentary wooden corpus of Christ on a blue-grey background—see the editors’ intro for discussion of this artwork!
April 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
parkerchronicle.bsky.social
Finally finished reading through my proofs! A favorite passage from ch. 6.
Citation: Me, pp. 214-15 of Light of the Everlasting Life: Disability and Crip Eschatology in Old English Literature, forthcoming in August from @uofmpress.bsky.social
#CripSky #Disability #MedievalSky
“It is not controversial to say that there is no Christian salvation without the Crucifixion. It is less common, however, to highlight what should be an obvious corollary: there is no salvation without injurious impairment, and the presence of impairment evokes the specter of disability, even if the body in question—Christ’s—may not warrant the label of disability. Early medieval English Christians did not read Christ as disabled, or any medieval parallel thereof, but they did put his wounded body in conversation with other forms of bodily fragmentation, injury, and even disability in order to collectively construct an eschatological imaginary of the embodied afterlife.” “The conceptualization of Christ’s body in conversation with impairment and disability makes his body crip.”
April 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
parkerchronicle.bsky.social
I love a lot of lines in chapter 5, “Cynewulf’s Wounds,” that make little sense out of context, probably including this one.
Citation: Me, p. 199 of Light of the Everlasting Life, forthcoming August from @uofmpress.bsky.social
#CripSky #Disability #MedievalSky
“The text stands in for the poet’s body, the dispersal and reassembly of runes cripping the path to the afterlife body. The runes perform disabling and prosthetic roles, containing both the certainty of fragmentation in the grave and the promise of the Resurrection.”
April 2, 2025 at 7:54 PM
parkerchronicle.bsky.social
Back at it: I remember writing this line in a Madison cafe for the dissertation version, but it’s still my favorite in chapter 4.
Citation: Me, p. 158 of Light of the Everlasting Life, forthcoming in August from @uofmpress.bsky.social
#CripSky #MedievalSky #Skystorians
“The potential consequence of being eaten, for Matthew, are undoubtedly unappealing: the eschatological hope for bodily resurrection would be alimentarily converted into scatological waste.”
March 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
parkerchronicle.bsky.social
Favorite line from ch.4 (after the cat joke that shall remain secret). About the portrait of St. Æthelthryth in the Benedictional of St. Æthelwold. Citation: Me, p. 138 of Light of the Everlasting Life, forthcoming in August from @uofmpress.bsky.social
#CripSky #Disability #MedievalSky #Skystorians
“If the artist carved a deeper line here with the intention of depicting the scar, then in doing so he took on the role of the leech Cynefrith, inscribing a mark into the saint’s neck; the pale pigment of the saint’s skin parted before the artist’s tools like flesh before the physician’s blade.”
March 9, 2025 at 10:22 PM
parkerchronicle.bsky.social
Chapter 2 has some bangers if I do say so myself. Citation: Me, p. 81 of Light of the Everlasting Life: Disability and Crip Eschatology in Old English Literature, forthcoming in August from @uofmpress.bsky.social
#CripSky #Disability #MedievalSky #Skystorians
“In Ælfric’s Swithun, the dependencies of the faith are evident in the dependencies of the narrative, but that narrative has real—and crip—eschatological consequences. The crutches and stools hung around Swithun’s shrine, quotidian relics of disability, reveal the importance of the impaired body for the construction of Swithun as a saint. The saint’s life leans on representations of disabled bodies to convey its doctrinal message and provide instruction to the faithful. The literal crutch left by an anonymous cure seeker thus becomes a figural, spiritual crutch for the figurehead of Christian doctrine. As spiritual prostheses, these crutches bear up the most important message of the Christian church, one of few doctrinal beliefs that have remained constant throughout the multimillennial history of Christianity; the relics of disability prosthesize the promise of salvation.”
March 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
parkerchronicle.bsky.social
Hit some bumps in progress this week, but finally found my favorite moment in chapter one. Citation: Me, p. 71 of Light of the Everlasting Life, forthcoming in August from @uofmpress.bsky.social
#CripSky #Disability #MedievalSky #Skystorians
“To adapt Lakoff and Johnson’s phrase, these were metaphors that Alfred and the West Saxons lived by in the crip eschatology of early medieval England. They reflected and shaped everyday experiences of the world, associating sinfulness and impairment with stigmatizing effects, even while also naturalizing vision impairment as an inherent part of earthly embodiment. The {sight is salvation} metaphor became a frequent shorthand for eschatological matters in Alfredian texts, one that maintained complex ties to both embodied experience and concerns for salvation. Despite its ubiquity, {sight is salvation} was not at all a dead metaphor, but rather one that continually drew on experiences of sightedness and blindness in order to retain its effectiveness.”
March 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM
parkerchronicle.bsky.social
The winning line from the intro, over an eight-way tie for second place. Citation: Me, p. 12 of Light of the Everlasting Life: Disability and Crip Eschatology in Old English Literature, forthcoming in August from @uofmpress.bsky.social
#CripSky #Disability #MedievalSky #Skystorians
“Even though the Old English texts I study here are by no means activist, in a modern sense, I would assert the importance of these histories for activist movements, to recognize the eschatological inflection of crip experiences that many culturally Christian and English-speaking communities have inherited. Invoking our medieval crip ancestors reminds us of the community we have had, much longer than we have had a name. Our crip ancestors did not fight quite the same fights for independence, self-determination, and human rights, and so they were not activists in the modern sense. Nevertheless, they existed, and their persistence earns them a place in the histories we write about disability, Christianity, and the European Middle Ages.”
March 3, 2025 at 11:52 PM
parkerchronicle.bsky.social
I started with the conclusion (it’s short!) and I like this sentence. Citation: Me, p. 248 of Light of the Everlasting Life: Disability and Crip Eschatology in Old English Literature, forthcoming in August from @uofmpress.bsky.social

#BookSky #CripSky #DisabilitySky #MedievalSky #Skystorians
Image of proof text, with the following sentence boxed in pink pen: “Characterizing the role of disability in early medieval eschatology facilitates our recognition—as scholars of the Middle Ages, as members of the disability community, as humans experiencing our bodies through cultural traditions deeply preoccupied with disability—of the part played by Christianity in a long history of conceptualizing disability through eschatological hopes and fears.”
March 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
neurodivengeance.bsky.social
Came across this great photo in Disability Intimacy & immediately thought of the 4 of Cups! This piece of art has improved my day, as has reading about the cripcentric collaborative creative process that made it.

darren lee (dee) miller, ‘Travis in Pearls’ (2022)

#CripSky #TarotSky
A composite photograph of Travis Chi Wing Lau seated on a white claw foot tub in the middle of a bathroom with wood floors and walls painted with vertical stripes of light blue, mustard yellow, and brown. In the background, there is a toilet, a white sink, a small rug, and a mirror, which shows a reflection of Travis that is another portrait in which he is seated in the same position but turning to look at the camera over his left shoulder.
April 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
neurodivengeance.bsky.social
This isn’t to say we should expect the potentials of our lives to be strictly limited forever but/and/also we are so much better placed to make the lasting liberatory changes we need when our cosmic analysis is crip-centred. The spiritual expresses through the material.

#AstroSky #CripSky
January 15, 2025 at 12:44 PM
neurodivengeance.bsky.social
Human Touch by Bruce Springsteen always makes me think of the 5 of Pentacles. I have a little dream of performing it dressed as a demon & dedicating it to all the housebound, bedbound & isolated crips. Sometimes we’re all we have to keep us alive.

#MusicSky #TarotSky #CripSky #NEISvoid
The 5 of Pentacles card from the Rider-Waite-Smith deck. Two impoverished people walk past a church in the snow; we see the stained glass window with 5 pentacles. One of the people is using wooden crutches to walk. Lyrics from Human Touch by Bruce Springsteen: ‘Ain’t no mercy on the streets of this town
Ain’t no bread from heavenly skies
Ain’t nobody drawin’ wine from this blood
It’s just you and me tonight Tell me, in a world without pity
Do you think what I’m askin’s too much
I just want something to hold on to
And a little of that human touch
Just a little of that human touch’
January 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM
dinowheels.bsky.social
We had to leave all our community, friends + the area we loved behind - but it was worth it to live somewhere like this.

Here I can get around, I can use the bathroom, I don't have to worry about falling. And I even get to be in nature again 🫶

#disabled #CripSky #WheelchairUser #ChronicPain
A wheelchair user in the distance propelling down a dirt path, bright green trees border both sides and blue sky is just visible through branches in the top left. A view between tree branches and brambles, showing two bodies of water. More trees are visible by the water and in the distance, above them the sky is blue and almost cloudless.
August 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
dinowheels.bsky.social
me: *wonders why I'm constantly injured, flaring, or in so much pain*

also me: *decides to self propel backwards up a hill because I'm bored whilst waiting for @better-than-botw.bsky.social to return from somewhere inaccessible* 💀

#cripsky #disabled
A white man wearing a bright light blue cap with a Charmander on it, dark rimmed glasses, a pale yellow hoodie and green sunflower lanyard. He has brown facial hair. To the left of him, stretching out to the top of the photo, is a concrete path surrounded by grass and trees.
April 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
dinowheels.bsky.social
Hubby nipped out to the shop what feels like forever ago, and I unexpectedly REALLY need to pee.

Sure wish I lived in an accessible house where I could get myself to the bathroom when needed 🫠

#cripsky #disabled #NEISvoid #AccessibilityMatters
April 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
dinowheels.bsky.social
An important reminder, and something that's incredibly easy to forget when you're disabled...

#chronicpain #medtrauma #disability #disabled #cripsky
March 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
dinowheels.bsky.social
It's tough when the pain from doing stuff like this (that my mental health really needed!) then feeds into the burnout.

Being disabled is constantly trying to tightrope, & balance out your physical / mental needs alongside symptoms, flares, triggers etc...

#cripsky #chronicpain #autistic #disabled
March 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
dinowheels.bsky.social
When the burnout is beginning to lift, so you feel mentally strong enough to sacrifice yourself to pain for a while...and you get to *actually craft* for the first time in a month 🥹

#autisticburnout #chronicpain #cripsky #knitsky
A white man's hand in the upper left corner, holding a circular pink plastic loom with blue and white wool wrapped around the pegs at the top. Hanging from the bottom of the loom is the brim of a white and blue knitted wool hat. A white man's hand resting palm up with 4 small glass pendants balanced on it. From left to right the first has a yellow section at the top and bottom, with a glittery blue square in the middle. Next pendant is very small, it has a white background and then an orange blob of colour at the top, red in the centre, and green at the bottom. Third pendant has what resembles a fried egg on it, with the yellow 'yolk' in the shape of a loveheart, to the right of the pendant at the top and bottom are red dots. The final pendant is the smallest of all, it features an orange blobby line at the top and bottom, and a glittery black oblong in the middle.
March 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
dinowheels.bsky.social
I'm now back to constant severe pain & having to limit all movement. To say I'm frustrated would be a huge understatement!

There's nothing I can do to prevent this either, as when the pain from my nerve damage is that severe I can't control my actions at all. Ffs 🫠

#cripsky #chronicpain
March 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM