Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin

Kelly Fritsch is Canada Research Chair in Disability, Health, and Social Justice and associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University. She is coauthor, with Anne McGuire, of We Move Together, an award-winning children's book about accessibility and disability culture, and coeditor of Disability Injustice: Confronting Criminalization in Canada and Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late-Capitalist Struggle.Anne McGuire is associate professor in critical disability studies and director of the program for Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity at the University of Toronto. She is author of War on Autism: On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence, which was awarded the Tobin Siebers prize for Disability Studies in the Humanities.

• ContentsPreface. Icebreaker: Broken AtmospheresIntroduction: Breakdown1. Break a Sweat: Fashioning Alterations Against Normative Inclusions2. Break the Bank: Making Irrevocable Shattering Visible3. Break Open: Spectrums of Risk and the Promise of Disability Inheritances4. Break Rank: Holding It Together with Disabled Kin5. Take a Break: Challenging Structures of Mental Health from the Fragments of Our Wreckage6. Jail Break: Collective Solidarity Against Involuntary Rehabilitation7. Breakwater: Disability in Dangerous Times8. Breaking Point: Confronting Broken Infrastructure with Crip Maintenance9. Break Loose: Unraveling Protective Fabrics10. Record Breaking: Making Disabled Kin on a Burning Planet11. Break Even: Contesting Hostile Futures with Disabled KinAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

"Timely and innovative, Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin enters urgent conversations in disability studies and disability justice about how to survive and world-build in perilous times. Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire adeptly trace the complicated ways that brokenness, repair, and maintenance practices sit in relation to racial capitalism, colonial pasts and presents, racialized ableism, and its eugenic manifests. This book is a needed and nuanced unfurling of disability wisdom." —Alyson Patsavas, University of Illinois Chicago"I've been waiting for a book like this for so many years, and it's showing up at the exact moment when it's needed the most. Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin is a crucial intervention that can help us see the way forward when it feels like the world is collapsing (it is). This book is a most vital archive of the ways that, bit by bit, disabled, mad, and BIPOC people are weaving a web of kinship and freedom in the face of death, demonstrating how our brokenness is a way out of hell." —Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, author of The Way Disabled People Love Each Other, The Future Is Disabled, and Care Work