Module 5 – Community, Accountability and Covid-19
Module Five Introduction
Welcome to Module 5! For this module, we will focus on:
- Introduction to community-being and community-making through Haudensaunee, Southern, and crip guidances
- Appeals to collectivity: mutual aid and cross-movement co-consipiratorship as futurity
- Rejecting isolation, individualism, and singularities (i.e individuated access)
- Introduction to affirming pandemic ongoingness and access + covid-consicous practices as mutual aid
- COVID-19, Palestine, and the collectivization of disability, life-making, access, and risk
Materials for this module:
Materials to Focus On
- Interview with Katie Babcock
- Spade, D (2020). Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/dean-spade-mutual-aid
- You can also watch Spade’’s video 101 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k2KZwKgtzI
- Kimmerer, R. (2013) Chapter 1: Sky Woman Falling Braiding Sweetgrass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_BYbAshB4A
- Mia Mingus (2022). You are not entitled to our deaths: Covid, Abled Supremacy, and Interdependence: https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2022/01/16/you-are-not-entitled-to-our-deaths-covid-abled-supremacy-interdependence/
Other Material
- Alice Wong (2023). Why Palestine is a disability issue: https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2023/12/02/why-palestinian-liberation-is-disability-justice/
- Carrie Sandahl (2020). Curated Crip Wisdom in the Time of Corona: https://cms.ahs.uic.edu/inside-ahs/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2020/05/Curated-Crip-Wisdom-in-the-Time-of-Corona-by-Carrie-Sandahl.pdf
- Fritsch, K. (2010). INTIMATE ASSEMBLAGES: DISABILITY, INTERCORPOREALITY, AND THE LABOUR OF ATTENDANT CARE. Critical Disability Discourses, 2. https://doi.org/10.25071/1918-6215.23854