Reposted by star beaste ☉∇ 🧿
Something I would work on between commissions and as a warmup that turned into a rough character ref of my pooka sona. Dont feel like explaining a lot right now but hopefully it speaks for itself? Maybe I will take questions one day.
!["what does it do when we force disability into the background of our stories [...] when it could be treated like love, war, coming of age, family, identity, get all.— a major subject that is strange, rich, powerful, and necessary to telling the story of life?
"[...] The definition of "the body" that i like the most is that it's anything that needs support."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eqcuk7ru6z6agznhokysjf3a/bafkreiberzuj6yvorzuwmrv2kzvhsex3iee7fw4z57tqn46szxotabdmom)
!["[...] and how disability makes it impossible to ignore that we are ontologically dependent, knotted into each other and everything."
"During those years of becoming disabled— when illness and all its words broke in and took over— tome got slow and credulous and, although full of labor, it was "unproductive" in the capitalist sense, which is to say, it became trip. (Similar to "queer," "crisp" is an intentional reclamation of the slur "cripple" that proposes a politics of empowerment that agitates [...]"
(the text cuts off here, and continues on a page not pictured here. the captioner also finds the cutoff poetic)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eqcuk7ru6z6agznhokysjf3a/bafkreif4xmuo3uqkpjudtbx543t5ryjrtrwakhhaht2njewerkhe5o3ure)
