Image description, alt text embedded: The cripple logo. It is of a neon green rectangle with a thick, bold letter C in the middle. The letter is very wobbly and has breaks in it's stroke, like two mouths coming ouf of it's ends. It is reminiscent of the original cripple logo by disabled designer, Mia Navarro in that it feels a bit eerie and unsettling. The word cripple is adjacent to the bottom right of the letter c. 

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 Cripple is a publishing initiative that supports disabled artists and designers.

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 Welcome to cripple! This is a note about our new website and what we do.

So what is cripple? Cripple is a publishing initiative that supports disabled artists and designers. We say that cripple is purposely non-linear because everything about disability and neurodivergence is never a straight path and sometimes a bit all over the map. And that’s a good thing—though certainly not easy. It’s in how we exist in the world. And how our day to day unfolds. We rarely start at point A and make it to point B without coming across a lot of inaccessibility, the ever impossible medical industrial complex, significant prejudice and all the while being in pain, sick, anxious and so forth. 

Cripple was founded by emily sara (www.emily-sara.com), in the year twenty twenty, during the thick of covid, in bed. She’s a queer, neurodivergent, disabled, artist, designer, writer and alt educator and this is a wing of her very hybridized practice. She founded cripple while teaching in higher education, recognizing the critical importance of supporting other disabled and neurodivergent artists and designers in bringing their work to life. She found that a lot of publishing spheres don’t quite quote unquote “get it” when it comes to disability or understanding the diverse access needs of disabled artists and designers. 

So what does cripple do? Every single day, if you join us on instagram (and soon other platforms as well)—intersectional news, resources, and history are published on our feed alongside our stories. We also do book giveaways—not just our own books but books that are important to our culture of disability. Emily has also curated a number of Resources (located below) and organized them for anyone who is looking to learn more about contemporary disability. This section is forever growing and if you come across any additions you’d recommend, please be sure to contact us (also located below)—we’d love to hear about your work or something else you’ve read or experienced. Everything in our resources section is also free. 

Additionally, we publish our own books, zines and other items by disabled artists and designers—you can find these items in the things section which is currently under construction (but not for long). Over the years this has included toys, clothing, ceramics, stickers, posters, etc. We think of a publishing initiative as a very expansive term. We have open calls from time to time. We also take longer than usual to put out books because we really believe in taking care of our bodyminds on both ends (the artist/designer and also our own team assisting with bringing these pieces to fruition). And last but not least, we have a disabled artist+ and lecture series that started in July of twenty twenty four and a documentary series called cripple shorts that began filming in February of twenty twenty five. Please definitely check these out. Both are ongoing and located on the same youtube channel: www.youtube.com/@cripple_publishing_initiative. 

So to summarize—cripple exists as a growing digital archive with many arms. One that can serve as support for the disabled and neurodivergent, as well as education for the general public. A digital library that highlights our oft-neglected contemporary concerns, our history, our art/design and more.

And though we are currently up against some historically large hurdles—every. single. day. we are furiously determined about uplifting and supporting our collective future. 

Hope you’ll join us. 

Be sure to sign up for our emails under *Contact Us* (we don’t like getting spam either, no worries, we won’t send out a ton). And come visit us on Instagram, YouTube and more. 

X O X O
    cripple

NEW NEWS

  April 13, 2025 — Hello all, it’s Emily here. I apologize for the last minute adjustment—I’m having to postpone the Monday 4/14 event: Fine We’ll Just 3D Print Our Own Wheelchairs (And Other Mobility Devices).

I’ve learned of the imminent passing of a close family member—and I need this time to now send my love and say goodbye to him. I take everyone's time very seriously and appreciate you wanting to be a part of these conversations with me and our community. Because of the sudden nature I’m going to have to circle back about a future date when I have a moment to collect my thoughts. I appreciate our interpreters and additional support for carving out this time as well—I have informed them of the abrupt change and they will be fully compensated for their time too. (And thank you again immensely.)

I’m sending emails out momentarily to everyone who signed up. I look forward to holding this space again in the very near future. I’ll be in touch.

With warmth,
Emily Sara


March 2025 — Join us for the free class: Fine, We’ll Just 3D Print Our Own Wheelchairs (And Other Mobility Devices) by Emily Sara. A talk about “right-to-repair,” learning open source tools to fix our own mobility devices and teaching skills to circumnavigate the system, is now open. Again, this is an entirely free class. It is also not necessary to be a designer or own a 3D printer. You also don’t need to be engaging in this class, it’s low stress and simply for anyone who is curious on how to get started. I’ll be reviewing a plethora of resources including free software you can download. A confirmation email will be sent for all who sign up, additional information for the event will be sent out in the coming future and posted on instagram as well. Sign up on the form below or reach out to studio@cripple.info.

ASL and automated captions will be provided—if you have additional access needs for this event please email studio@cripple.info by April 5th.

*Update — Because of the change noted above, the form has been deleted. I will circle back with additional information in the coming future to all who signed up.



February 2025 — With recent news, a reminder that autism is not a disease that needs to be fixed or cured. We are living, breathing, human beings that deserve human rights. Sending immense love to everyone who is  so so so tired and who are just trying to live. Anyone who is autistic knows that the discrimination is rampant—one statistic shows that 85% of autistic people are unemployed and 51% of autistic individuals are underemployed. The publication by Dr Devon Price entitled Unmasking Autism is on the docket for our next book giveaway—updates on this to be posted on cripple’s instagram and will be part of the newsletter as well (sign up under *Contact Us*). See below under the section *Resources* for Dr Devon Price’s substack link. If you’d like to learn more about autism and getting involved, ASAN aka Autism Self Advocacy Network is a great place to start. I’ve also included it’s hyperlink below this paragraph as well (double mentioning in case you’re listening to this via screenreader).

Learn about what’s happening with the 504 and Medicaid. DREDF aka Disability Rights and Education Fund has done incredible work organizing some actionable points for both pieces, also linked below this paragraph.

ASAN—Autism Self Advocacy Network: www.autisticadvocacy.org
Dr Devon Price Substack: www.substack.com/@drdevonprice
Cripple’s Instagram: www.instagram.com/_cripple_
Unmasking Autism on Libby: https://share.libbyapp.com/title/6384780
DREDF and Medicaid: www.dredf.org/hands-off-our-medicaid/
DREDF and the 504: www.dredf.org/protect-504/


January 2025 — A series of resources, related to mutual aid for residents affected by the Los Angeles fires has been posted. Additionally, we participated in the national call to end subminimum wage, Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Signed in 1938, it allows companies to legally pay the disabled as low as .25 cents per hour. Cripple has also been collaborating with the arts non-profit, A Blade of Grass—thank you to ABoG for footing the bill for our book giveaway. We sent out copies of Miss Major Speaks by Miss Major Griffin-Gracy and Toshio Meronek, Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, and The Future Is Disabled by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. Always adamant that the book giveaways require the least amount of bandwidth from participants—no gimmicks or engagement required, just books. The disabled (including neurodivergence) need less time spent on applications and more support.

All are posted to the instagram feed at www.instagram.com/_cripple_

 
Image description, alt text embedded: A neon green box with thick black letters says: Did you know that it’s legal to pay the disabled below the minimum wage? It’s true. Underneath a black box with white and a rusty orange text reads: We need immediate action NOW! and only have until 11:59pm on (today) Friday January 17th. This is where you come in. An arrow points to the right (next slide). The cripple logo with a glowing gradient sits on the right hand side about midway down the art board.
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A piece of lightly blue lined notebook paper with the ruffled fringe along the left side. The text at the top says Book Giveaway in thick black lettering. The three books are Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler on the left—a cover that looks a bit like like cut out paper or block prints of a Black woman in a red dress and minimalist flames around her. In the middle is the audio book The Future Is Disabled by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. The image is gradient pastels with a geometric body made of lines that is reaching upwards. The last image on the right is Miss Major Speaks by Miss Major Griffin-Gracy and Toshio Meronek with an image of Miss Major, a Black woman in a white dress with cut outs where the shoulders are. In the top right hand corner is the neon green cripple logo and on the left is a dark green rectangle with the A Blade of Grass logo in baby pink.
Image description, alt text embedded: A black rectangle on a neon green square. In thick, bold, white text it says A collection of mutual aid and other resources in the Los Angeles area. A little neon green circle with a black letter C for the cripple logo is in the bottom right hand corner.
Image description, alt text embedded: A regurgitated meme—of a car that is skidding over to reach the exit on the right that they almost missed. It’s a small blue vintage looking vehicle and the sign above had been edited messily in photoshop with text. It is implying that if you go forward it is quote unquote regular things. The right side of the sign signifying the exit the car is hastily pulling towards says: collaborating on or participating in community support, resources, free classes etc. with cripple. The cripple logo is pasted next to the sign. It is a neon green circle with a bold letter C in the middle—the letter is misshapen. A wobbly, potentially diseased, sick, and tired, letter C.


October 2024 — On Monday October 21st at 1 pm to 2pm eastern we had a discussion about P.R.A.W.N. (Pay Rate For Access Workers Now) with Madison Zalopany and Alison Kopit.

We need to organize and strengthen access work—especially since a lot of this is done by so many disabled/neurodivergent people who depend on it for their livelihood. So help us organize and learn what we can do to help us, help you.

As with all of our online events, ASL and automated captions are provided. This was a recorded event and will be posted soon on our youtube account.  

A link to the video will be provided soon—the link to cripple’s digital library is: www.youtube.com/@cripple_publishing_initiative.  
Image description, alt text embedded: A neon green square with thick black text. It says: Interested in learning about working in access? Work in access and not sure how much others are getting paid? Belong to an organization that should prioritize access? (hint-that’s everyone) Join us for a discussion about P.R.A.W.N. PAY RATE FOR ACCESS WORKERS NOW October 21st 1pm eastern time. Hosted by cripple. Sign up w. link in bio. To the right are three shrimp or prawn emojis that get larger as they descend. The new cripple logo is in the bottom right hand corner.


July 2024 — Bryan Castro, as part of cripple’s disabled artist lecture series, held an online performance entitled The A.B.C. of Mediums Stuttered. To watch Bryan’s performance, visit our digital library also available at this link: www.youtube.com/@cripple_publishing_initiative. 

More lectures coming soon, sign up for updates to cripple news in contact us, below in the Contact Us section.

Image description, alt text embedded: A screenshot of the Bryan Castro’s performance lecture that was hosted by cripple online. It is a solid color purple screen that has neon green lettering at the bottom that says I I I I I I I I I I I frequently stutter in my speech. Above is a row of individuals including Bryan Castro and ASL interpreter Cory who is signing alongside him. An image of the automated captions are in the top right hand corner. 
Image description, alt text embedded: A screenshot of an instagram post. Lime green and yellow with hints of cyan streaks. Images of artist Bryan Castro, a person of color/a person with a brown body and a painting of his, checker the bottom of the screen. The text in a black sans serif font and in varying weights says: cripple presents—as part of our disabled artist lecture series. Bryan Castro The ABC of Mediums Stuttered. Wednesday July 3rd 5pm eastern standard time on zoom and free. A S L and auto captions will be provided. The text continues, link in bio to sign up for the event. The bottom right hand corner has a textured blue blob with an older version of the cripple logo. Everything is a bit choppy feeling and very vibrant. On Purpose. 


INTENTIONS


1. Cripple is a publishing initiative that supports the endeavors of disabled artists and designers. As mentioned above in our welcome section, we do quote unquote “publishing” as a very expansive term. 

2. Cripple is described as quote unquote “purposely non-linear” because everything about disability and neurdivergence is unpredictable, fluctuating, growing, receding and requires flexibility and intention. 

3. Cripple was founded by Emily Sara (www.emily-sara.com) in the thick of covid (still ongoing) of twenty twenty from bed—she is queer, disabled and neurodivergent. Cripple is an extention of her hybridized practice. 

4. Cripple uses the word “we” even when, at this time, majority of the administrative work, organizing and design is done by Emily. We use “we” because “we” are regularly hiring other disabled and neurodivergent individuals to assist with projects to bring the works of other disabled and neurodivergent artists and designers to fruition. Survival when you are disabled and neurodivergent requires community, assistance and support. Our collective survival rests on these qualities as well. Cripple would not exist with out consideration and the support of our disabled and neurodivergent community. 

5. Cripple believes in an intersectional lens when supporting disabled and neurodivergent content. This means that although we support content pertaining to disability and neurodivergence—content that relates to race, gender, environment, class and more—is asbolutely paramount to our dialogue as well. 

6. Cripple strives to use terminology that exists closer to plain language and far from art speak. We believe that access begins with language—and though not everything can be 100% accessible at all times (because of conflicting access needs)—it’s critical that we do not uphold the violence of language that dominates our art and design sectors. This also includes support of quote unquote “errors” of language, art and design—so that we can strive to support access over quote unquote “correctness.” The concept of the error is also centered in the history of Disability Aesthetics. Disability Aesthetics was a concept and publication written by Tobin Siebers in twenty ten.


Image description, alt text embedded: A diagram of a spectrum of language, showing the location of where cripple positions itself between plain language and art speak. It is a simple diagram with the previous sentence as a title. Black strokes and arrows show plain language on the left and art speak on the right. If the space was divided up into fifths between the two, cripple would be positioned about one fifth away from plain language. This diagram shows how cripple strives to distance itself from the harm of art speak by not adopting it’s practices. The electric green color of cripple surrounds the diagram as a rectangle.


7. Cripple believes in instilling access as much as possible and to do otherwise is to uphold ableism and direct harm. Cripple strives to consult and take into consideration our diverse community and their individual access needs. We recognise that access is a forever process and one that continually evolves. 

8. Cripple, the publishing initiative, is lowercase and named after a word that references the history of extreme, violent harm enacted upon disabled and neurodivergent communities. Cripple is a reclaimed terminology and we recognize that this term does not solely belong to any one individual or organization nor does every disabled individual endorse the use of the term cripple. 

9. Cripple is a publishing initiative that subscribes to the 10 principles of Disability Justice as founded by the collective Sins Invalid. Sins Invalid is 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.

10. Cripple believes and uses the term disabled as an expansive term which always includes neurodivergence. 

11. Cripple believes in revision and consideration from our community at large and that these intentions will be forever changing and updated. Though these intentions are numbered, it is to emphasize a list and not a priority of one over the other. Please do reach out to us in our contact form, below, if you have additonal suggestions, concerns or questions. 


Here are all of cripples current and ongoing projects:

• Instagram resources pertaining to intersectional news related to disability and neurdivergence. Posts are made regularly and stories are made on a daily basis. We also have a highlight that has a link to an instagram channel for jobs, grants, residencies and other resources that anyone and everyone is welcome to subscribe to.

• Regular book giveaways of critical texts that relate to contemporary disabled (including neurodivergent) culture. These are not necessarily texts which we publish ourselves. Book giveaways are posted on instagram (and soon to be other platforms). 

• Continuing to publish our own texts and other content by disabled artists and designers. This content will soon be available and located under Things, located below.

• Lending our instagram home and collaborating with other adjacent or disabled organizations. 

• A curated list of resources related to disability and neurodivergence. This list is continuously being updated and is free. This content is available and located below, under Resources. 

• An ongoing lecture series that highlights the work of disabled and neurodivergent artists, designers and access workers alike. This lecture series will be recorded and uploaded to our youtube channel. All videos are hyperlinked below under the Digital Library.

• An ongoing documentary series called cripple shorts, showcasing the studios (and non-studios since so many individuals from our community are in bed or cannot afford the costs) of disabled artists and designers. This series will also be available on our youtube channel. All videos are hyperlinked below under the Digital Library.

• Purchasing a 3D printer. Woohoo, we did it! See below re the archive. 

• Applying for grants to fund all of these projects and pay disabled and neurodivergent artists and designers (and more) for the incredible work that they do.


Upcoming goals of cripple (short term):

• Updating *Things*—a space to host work by other disabled artists and designers. Many of these items will also be free for digital download. 

• Hosting an online archive of free 3D mobility devices that can be downloaded and printed by the user. 

• Free online classes that are based in art/design educational support, since so many disabled and neurodivergent individuals cannot access higher education and more. 

• Expanding our social media presence so that resources and posts are synchonrized and available beyond Meta/Instagram.


Upcoming goals of cripple (long term):

• Grants — Cripple has a long term goal of dispersing quote unquote “no strings attached” grants on a regular basis to disabled artists and designers. This means that individuals can use this money for anything they deem necessary whether it’s food, healthcare, art supplies or otherwise. These grants would also be highly flexible in being dispersed so that it will not interfere with the restrictions set when receiving assistance via disability/social security or similar. Some government support systems can still be suddenly stopped if an individual receives over a certain preditermined threshold in a month. This threshold amount is still often not enough for survival but can be detrimental to an individuals care if these services are suddenly stopped. Because our current society also has shortfalls in our educational system and support for disabled and neurodivergent individuals is not on the same level as their non-disabled counterparts, cripple will be focusing on disabled artists and designers who are at the beginning to early stages of their career. When this financial support is launched, we will post it on our instagram account, send it out as an email and have it posted on this site as well.

• Offering financial support for access equipment and mobility devices — Cripple has a goal of having a fund and simple application process for individuals to apply for access equipment and mobility devices that they deem necessary. Our research has found that individuals who are multiply marginalized have an even larger barrier to access equipment and mobility devices through insurance. This fund would have a short application and would not require documentation of disabilities, as this is one of the many reasons why acquiring mobility devices can be so difficult. Many individuals are disabled or neurodivergent but don’t have the financial means or time for testing. Additionally, individuals who are multiply marginalized can also receive harsher rejections surrounding acquiring treatment or because of familial stigmas—which make getting testing, treatment and insurance approvals significantly more difficult to achieve. Anything that anyone deems as access equipment or mobility devices for themselves would be appropriate to apply for—whether it’s bed lifts, delivery service subscriptions, wheelchairs, screen reader subscriptions, fidget toys, medication costs or otherwise. When this financial support is launched, we will post it on our instagram account, send it out as an email and have it posted on this site as well.

DIGITAL LIBRARY


Welcome to our digital library. Included below are two projects we’ve got rolling. The first is our ongoing lecture series of disabled artists, designers and more—launched in July of twenty twenty four.  The second is a mini documentary series called cripple shorts, showcasing the studios (and “non-studios”) of disabled artists and designers. The schedule for both will be posted in the New News section, above, and on our Instagram account. Please be sure to sign up for our emails below in the *Contact Us* section—we will be sending out links to our lectures along with additional cripple updates.

Our digital library is hosted on our YouTube channel—all future video based content will be located at this link: www.youtube.com/@cripple_publishing_initiative

Individual content is also linked by clicking on the images below. 



Image description, alt text embedded: A neon green screen that says P. R. A. W. N. (PRAWN) in bold black font. Underneath is a YouTube logo. In the right hang corner in reversed colors, a bookmarked looking triangle, is the cripple c logo.
Image description, alt text embedded: A neon green screen that says Bryan Castro in bold black font. Underneath is a YouTube logo. In the right hang corner in reversed colors, a bookmarked looking triangle, is the cripple c logo.

Image description, alt text embedded: A grayscale version of the previous image that says coming soon. In the right hand corner is the cripple c logo.

RESOURCES


A curated list of free resources pertaining to debility, disability (including neurodivergence), disability history, disability rights, Disability Justice, accessibility and other pertinent tools. We are forever adding to these resources, this is a living and ongoing project. If you are reading this with a screen reader, the following list located below is hyperlinked and in alphabetical order with hashtags located at the bottom. 

Do you have suggestions of content to add? Updated links? Anything else? Please contact us below, would love to hear from you.


The A. B. C. of Mediums Stuttered by Bryan Castro

ABLE Accounts (ABLE National Resource Center)

Ableism in Academia by Nicole Brown and Jennifer Leigh

Access Guide

Access Intimacy by Mia Mingus

Access Toolkit For Artworkers

Access Washing by Stacey Milbern

Accessibility in the Arts: A Promise and a Practice by Carolyn Lazard

Accessible PDFS — How To

ADA

ADAPT

Addressing Ableism: Ableist Monsters

Aestheticizing The Stutter by Tyrone Williams

Aira ASL (On Demand Interpretation App)

Alterlivability by Aimi Hamraie

Alt Text as Poetry by Bojana Coklyat and Finnegan Shannon

Alt Text Selfies by Bojana Coklyat, Finnegan Shannon and Olivia Dreisinger

Amanda Morris — Disability Reporter, Secure Tip Line

American Indian Community House

Andrew Wyeth “Christina’s World” MoMA

The Art of Access: Innovative Protests of an Inaccessible City by Elizabeth F. Emens

The Audacious Patient — Guides For Dealing With Health Insurance, Medical Billing And More

Aut2Ask

Autism and Disability in Nazi Vienna

Autism and Race

Autism Wiki

Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN)

Bearing Witness, Demanding Freedom: Judge Rotenberg Center Living Archive by Lydia X Z Brown

Becoming A Skilled Griever by Ekua Adisa (Audio)

Black Disability Justice Syllabus by Sins Invalid

Black Disabled Creatives

Black Disabled Woman Syllabus by Vilissa K Thompson

Black Neurodiversity

Black Neurodiversity — Navigating Higher Education by Ben-Oni

The Black Panther’s Newspaper

Black Power Naps 

Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction by Sami Schalk

Bone Music

Bookshare — Accessible Book Platform

Bookshare Discount for Individuals ("Bookshare is free for all US college and graduate students with qualifying disabilities")

Boundaries by Dave Hingsburger

A Brief History of Disability in Horror by Kristen Lopez

Can Britney Spears Vote?: Mental Disability and Suffrage by Olivia Dreisinger

Care In Uncertain Times Syllabus

Censorship of Marginalized Communities on Instagram

Center for Liberatory Practices and Poetry

Circle O

Clawee by The White Pube

The Clearing by JJJJJerome Ellis

Colonial Forces of Environmental Violence on Deaf, Disabled, & Ill Indigenous People by Jen Deerinwater

Contrast Ratio Checking (one of many, use any)

A Conversation with TL Lewis: Understanding the Intersection of Disability, Ableism, Racism, & Anti-Blackness

Crip Cinema Archive

Crip Crash Course by Sins Invalid

Crip Negativity by J. Logan Smilges

Crip News by Kevin Gotkin

Crip Technoscience Manifesto

Critical Creative Corrective Cacophonous Comical: Closed Captions by Emily Watlington

Critical Design Lab

Crutches_and_spice

The Dark Sublime: Abolition and Aesthetics at the End of the World by Che Gossett

DeafSpace

Deaf Poets Society

The Debt-Ceiling Fight’s Collateral Damage By E. Tammy Kim

A Decolonial Feminist Epistemology of the Bed: A Compendium Incomplete of Sick and Disabled Queer Brown Femme Bodies of Knowledge by Tala Khanmalek and Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes

Design Justice Network

Diagnosis Grad School by Olivia Dreisinger

Digital Care Package (On Grief) by Design Justice Network

Disabilities Archives Labs

Disability Dongle by Liz Jackson, Alex Haagaard, Rua Williams

Disability Futures

Disability In Horror Films

Disability Museum

Disability, Space, Architecture: A Reader by Jos Boys

Disability Thinking Weekday by Andrew Pulrang

Disability Visibility Project by Alice Wong

Disavowals by Claude Cahun 

Disease Fund Finder

Dollar For — Get Relief From Hospital Bills (Free Resource)

Drag Syndrome

Dr Devon Price Substack

DREDF (Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund)

Earth, Earth by Cyrée Jarelle Johnson

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability In American Culture and Literature by Rosemary Garland Thomson

An Everyday Archive of Time Stolen Back by kimi malka hanauer

The Fashion Empire Built on Stolen Ideas by Liz Jackson and Rua Williams

Field Funds by A Blade of Grass

Find Help

Find Your Members of Congress

Flight School by Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo

Flight School Transcript by Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo
(script for access purposes only—please no publishing of this text without permission from Lukaza)

Fragrance Free Femme of Colour Genius by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Free U.S. Tax Help For The Disabled and Qualifying Taxpayers

The Gallaudet Eleven

GenderFail

Generate Your Own Insurance Appeal by Holden Karau

The Girl, The Well, The Ring by Zefyr Lisowski

Goblin Tools

Graythorn’s Ko-fi

Grief Crisis Map by PDX Queer Death Collective

Health Justice Commons

Heavy Air

Hedva's Disability Access Rider by Johanna Hedva

How NYC Drag Queens Revolutionized Queer Healthcare by Daniel Villarreal

How Society Forces Autistics to Become Inhibited and Passive by Dr. Devon Price

iAmerica Immigrant Resources Know Your Rights

Implicit and Explicit Attitudes Toward Autistic Adults

In Defense of Autistic Trans Self-Determination by Cyrée Jarelle Johnson and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

It’s Time To Listen To Black Disabled People by Vilissa K Thompson

Index Palestine

The Intersection of Disability and Genocide by Dena Harry Saleh

“I Was There” ADAPT 25

Jobs Grants Gigs Residencies + Channel on Instagram (as run by Emily Sara) 

Kinetic Light

Kiva Centers

Know Your Rights App by NAKASEC

Let’s Sick Dance by Dia Dear

The Links Between Disability and Domestic Violence

Lupus As an Operating System by Cyrée Jarelle Johnson

Making Disability an Essential Part of American History

Mapping Access Toolkit by Aimi Hamraie and Critical Design Lab

Medical Abuse Hotline

Moral Panics in Government-Funded Accessibility by Blake Reid

My Body Is A Prison Of Pain So I Want To Leave It Like A Mystic But I Also Love It & Want It To Matter Politically by Johanna Hedva

National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)

National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled Downloadable Books and Magazines (BARD)

Neither Settler Nor Native by Mahmood Mamdani

Non-Carceral Mental Health, Care, Support and Learning Resources by Dandelion Hill

Neurotypical Peers are Less Willing to Interact with Those with Autism based on Thin Slice Judgments

NYC Resource Library

Open Dyslexic Font

Open Source Wheelchairs

Organization Means Commitment by Grace Lee Boggs

Outline For A Disability Critique of Property by David Gissen

Overmanic Zines

Painwise by Olivia Dreisinger

Palestine is Disabled

The Palestinian Museum Digital Archive

Parallels Between Prisons and Psychiatry

Pay Rate For Access Workers Now (PRAWN) by Alison Kopit and Madison Zalopany

Pay Rate For Access Workers Now (PRAWN) by Alison Kopit and Madison Zalopany hosted by cripple

The Peoples CDC

Personal and Intimate Care New Module by Open Future Learning

Plain Language Policy Dashboard

Pods and Pod Mapping Worksheet by Mia Mingus

Post-Internet Literature: Alt-Text by Olivia Dreisinger

Proxy Caller Project (ASAN) and Action Alerts

Psychiatry Negated: Conflict and the Culture of Resistance in Italy and Brazil by S.W. Warren

Queering the Map

Queer Solidarity with Palestine: Resource Guide

The Radical Accessibility of Video Art (For Hearing People) by Emily Watlington

Repro Legal Defense Fund

Reshaping Beauty: Review of Tobin Siebers's Disability Aesthetics (2010) by Nicholas Hetrick

Resilience Journal Free Download by Yo-Yo Lin

Rethinking Residences Symposium

Revolt Against the Sun by Nazik al-Mala'ika

Ridding Your Monsters of Ableism by

The Right To Maim by Jasbir Puar

Sensory Shift: A Disability Arts Residency

Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native by Patrick Wolfe

Sick Building Syndrome by Michelle Murphy

Sick Time, Sleepy Time, Crip Time by Taraneh Fazeli

Sick Woman Theory (Revised 2019 version) by Johanna Hedva

Sins Invalid

Skin, Tooth and Bone: A Disability Justice Primer by Sins Invalid (not free but critical reading so it’s included)

SPACE To Stutter

A Stuttering Pride Flag

Subway Art for Palestine Project

Steps of Naloxone Administration

A Sweeping Survey of Disability Arts Claims Everyone Is, or Will Become, Disabled By Emily Watlington

Taking Over The Asylum: Critical psychiatry, Franco Basaglia and social struggle by John Foot

Teacher Letter For Students Who Stutter

Timeline of the Medical Industrial Complex

Tips for Using the ICE Detainee Locator System

Tom Olin Collection — Documenting the Disability Rights Movement through photos since 1984

Toolkit for cooperative, collective, and collaborative cultural work by Press Press

Transgender Law Center

Trans Lifeline

Triage for People of the Salt

Undue Medical Debt Guide For Navigating Medical Bills

Unmasking as a Black Neurodivergent Employee by Nancy Doyle

The Waiting Room by Simone Leigh

Web Accessibility Initiative

What Cannot Be Held by Toby MacNutt

What Kind of Mother (documentary on maternal suicide) by Olivia Dreisinger 

When The World Isn't Designed For Our Bodies by Katy Waldman

Where Will We Make Our Burial? by kimi malka hanauer

White Supremacy Culture by Tema Okun

Working Definition of Ableism by Talila Lewis

Workplace Social Challenges Experienced by Employees on the Autism Spectrums

Wynne Newhouse Awards

What Kind of Mother (Documentary on Suicide) by Olivia Dreisinger

Why Palestinian Liberation Is Disability Justice by Alice Wong

W3 Free Course On Digital Accessibility

The Yarrow Collective

Young Lords Founder José Cha Cha Jiménez Interview

Zoeglossia

#DisabilityTooWhite

#EugenicsSyllabus

#StaceyTaughtUs Syllabus — Work by Stacey Park Milbern



THINGS


*Things* will soon host items made by disabled artists and designers. Cripple is a publishing initiative—but that’s an expansive term. 

More than just books. And plenty of free digital downloads as well. *Things* is coming, be sure to check back soon.
  
 
Image description, alt text embedded: A gray square that says coming soon. In the right hand corner is the cripple c logo.
Image description, alt text embedded: A gray square that says coming soon. In the right hand corner is the cripple c logo.
    

CONTACT US


Use the following form to sign up for emails. Don’t worry, we don’t like being bombarded with emails either and won‘t send them out that often. If you’d like to contact cripple, we can be reached at studio (at) cripple (dot) info. Thanks for reaching out.
   


© 2025 cripple, Emily Sara

Cripple was founded in twenty twenty by Emily Sara — emily-sara.com
Cripple is a publishing initiative and is an extention of her very hybridized practice. Emily is a queer, neurodivergent, disabled, artist, designer, writer and alt educator.

Code support for this website has been provided by Mariah Barden Jones who is available for design work and can be found at seahorsegirl.world

Original logo design of cripple was created by Mia Navarro, established in twenty twenty. Mia is also available for design work and can be found at mianavarro.com
Image description, alt text embedded: The cripple logo. It is of a neon green rectangle with a thick, bold letter C in the middle. The letter is very wobbly and has breaks in it's stroke, like two mouths coming ouf of it's ends. It is reminiscent of the original cripple logo by disabled designer, Mia Navarro in that it feels a bit eerie and unsettling. The word cripple is adjacent to the bottom right of the letter c.
Image description, alt text embedded: The first iteration of the cripple logo of 2020. It is of a neon green rectangle with black, thin and wonky lettering that spells out the word cripple. It was designed by Mia Navarro and feels a bit eerie and unsettling. The letters were created using steel wire, photography, and digital drawing.