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Book giveaway: Crip Kinship

The disability justice & art activism of Sins Invalid
Book giveaway: Crip Kinship

Helloooo! Today I am thrilled to offer a giveaway of Dr. Shayda Kafai’s new book from Arsenal Pulp Press, Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid. This is a personal favorite of mine since I am in community with both the author and Sins Invalid. I have one more giveaway before 2022 so stay tuned!

On a light blue background, a black female figure wearing a flowing dark pink dress and holding a cane looks upward. Behind the figure is the outline of a room with a window, an orange portrait, and a small, round coffee table with an open book and coffee cup. Overlaying the linework is a variety of illustrated flowers in pink, purple, yellow, and brown, with blue and purple leaves. There are two butterflies, one pink and illustrated, the other a cutout photo of a monarch butterfly. Text which reads Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice and Art Activism of Sins Invalid by Shayda Kafai.
On a light blue background, a black female figure wearing a flowing dark pink dress and holding a cane looks upward. Behind the figure is the outline of a room with a window, an orange portrait, and a small, round coffee table with an open book and coffee cup. Overlaying the linework is a variety of illustrated flowers in pink, purple, yellow, and brown, with blue and purple leaves. There are two butterflies, one pink and illustrated, the other a cutout photo of a monarch butterfly. Text which reads Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice and Art Activism of Sins Invalid by Shayda Kafai. 

From the publisher:

In recent years, disability activism has come into its own as a vital and necessary means to acknowledge the power and resilience of the disabled community, and to call out ableist culture wherever it appears.

Crip Kinship explores the art activism of Sins Invalid, a San Francisco Bay Area-based performance project, and its radical imaginings of what disabled, queer, trans, and gender-nonconforming bodyminds of colour can do: how they can rewrite oppression, and how they can gift us with transformational lessons for our collective survival.

Grounded in the disability justice framework, Crip Kinship investigates the revolutionary survival teachings that disabled, queer of colour community offers to all our bodyminds. From their focus on crip beauty and sexuality to manifesting digital kinship networks and crip-centric liberated zones, Sins Invalid empowers and moves us toward generating our collective liberation from our bodyminds outward.

Includes a foreword by Patty Berne, co-founder, and executive and artistic director of Sins Invalid.
Shayda, a Middle Eastern femme wearing bright pink lipstick. She smiles at the camera. She has short, wispy hair, a long silver feather earring, and is wearing a black shirt.
Shayda, a Middle Eastern femme wearing bright pink lipstick. She smiles at the camera. She has short, wispy hair, a long silver feather earring, and is wearing a black shirt. 

About the author:

Shayda Kafai is an Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. As a queer, Mad, femme of colour, 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.

Details

1) Any disabled person in the US or Canada is eligible for this giveaway. You do not need to disclose any details about your disability. Please note it may take some time for the book to arrive due to shipping delays.

If you already received a book from one of my previous giveaways, please consider letting other people have a chance.

2) The first 5 people will receive a paperback. If you do not receive a reply that means the books have been claimed or you did not include all the required information.

3) Send an email to DisabilityVisibilityProject@gmail.com with ‘Book Giveaway’ in the title of the message. Do not reply to this post!!

4) Include the following information in your message:

  • First and last name
  • Mailing address
  • Phone number (needed for shipping)

Please note: I will send this information along with your email address to the publisher. They are responsible for confirming your details and sending you the book.

Published by:

Alice Wong

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