"As a long-time admirer of Sins Invalid, I am grateful for Dr. Shayda Kafai's Crip Kinship. Crip wisdom and disability justice are what we need right now. A must-read for anyone who wants to understand the origins of disability justice." —Alice Wong, editor of Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century

"As a scholar of belonging, it has taken me so long to let my own disabled bodymind belong - to feel the holy connective power in my pain, the ways I need help, my healing story - and to let myself belong in community as I truly am. Sins Invalid opened a portal that so many of the people who have taught me to live fully into the wholeness of my present have both held wide and come thru. This book invites a new generation through that portal of disability justice, to feel the powerful nature of us in our miraculous biodiversity and symbiosis, the love ethic in practice, the creative reclamation of our dignity, and the future that will unfold from our orgasmic yes. Shayda Kafai, in weaving this story, takes a place in the lineage of crip doulas who help us understand we are whole, and different, and perfect." —adrienne maree brown, author of Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

Shayda Kafai is an Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. As a queer, Mad, femme of color, she commits to enacting the many ways we can reclaim our bodyminds from intersecting systems of oppression. She lives in Pomona, California with her wife, Amy.

Chapter 1: Arriving at Sins Invalid: Heart, Lung, Pulse
Chapter 2: Principles and Roots: Sins Invalid’s Disability Justice Primer
Chapter 3: Creating Crip-Centric Liberated Zones
Chapter 4: Storytelling as Sins Invalid’s Crip Strategy
Chapter 5: Artmaking as Recognition and Revision
Chapter 6: Communities Coming Home
Chapter 7: Funding Activism, Disability Justice Dreaming
Chapter 8: Drool, Thrust, Feel: Cripping Eroticism
Chapter 9: Crip Futurity: Lessons for All Our Bodyminds