Crip Care is a Disabled-led project rooted in Disability Justice. We build community, cultivate crip culture, and create pathways for Disabled people to address our individual and collective needs through advocacy, research, organizing, and collective care.
We center Disabled people most impacted by oppression. We believe those closest to injustice must be at the center of building solutions, creating culture, and shaping the future of our communities.
Inspired by our Disabled ancestors and the Disability Justice movement, we envision thriving Disabled communities rooted in crip culture, collective care, and collective liberation. We imagine radically accessible spaces where Disabled people gather, lead, organize, create, and belong. We strive for a world where disability is celebrated as a source of strength and creativity, access is foundational, and Disabled people—especially those most impacted by oppression—can thrive with dignity, joy, and community.
Elida Paiz Pineda (they/them, ella/elles) is a disabled, queer, non-binary, latine organizer, facilitator, educator, artist and co-creator of Crip Care. Their work is an evolving practice of community stewardship, aiming to embody collective liberation through decolonial ways of relating and power sharing with others.
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Quinn Meehan (they/them) is a Disabled, genderqueer, white organizer, researcher, and co-creator of Crip Care. Grounded in the disability justice traditions developed by Disabled QTBIPOC organizers, they work to build cross-disability spaces and imagine worlds centered on collective access, interdependence, and liberation where Disabled people can cultivate crip culture and solidarity.
Visual Description: A white genderqueer person with blue eyes, a wavy light pink and bleach blonde mullet, eye makeup, and eyebrow, nostril, and septum, and ear piercings. They are wearing a grey coat over a teal dress shirt, sitting in a powerchair with a blurred background of a light blue sky with bare trees.