Crip n' Slide

The Crip n' Slide is a visualization of the hidden labour involved in project work—especially project work that claims itself as disability-centred—held with process, procedural, output, and surveillance mechanisms consistent with extractivist norms.

Mapping a glossary of terms as we learn more about what we care about related to Disability Justice. We hope it may be useful to other community-members asked to do this kind of hidden labour as a condition to belonging in coworking environments.

This is obviously and comically incomplete (and not possible to complete). We invite community-members to contact us if you would like to work on a part of this. We would like to practice kind accountability with this project, if there is something you think we need to add or change, please get in touch via the contact form on our website.

(Coworking Methodology, NVF & CJH, linocut, 2025)

Project Overview

Crip ’n Slide is a living, interlinked glossary of over 600 terms related to disability and disability justice. It began as a response to a recurring pattern: disabled people in community and coworking environments are often asked to perform the hidden labour of explaining core concepts, holding space, and equipping others with the knowledge and skills necessary for collaboration. This glossary is our way of making visible that labour, while also refusing the extractivist norms that expect it to be done silently, endlessly, and without support.

The origins of Crip ’n Slide trace back to a gathering in 2022, when questions of belonging, access, and responsibility surfaced in urgent ways. It became clear that even in spaces committed to justice, inequities in how disability is understood and enacted can lead to exclusion and harm. Those moments reminded us that disabled community members are frequently asked to step into leadership—sometimes because of the skills honed through survival, and other times because if disabled people are not shaping the space, the space will not be livable at all. These experiences seeded a recognition: we needed tools that could both document the labour being carried and distribute it more sustainably.

It is 2025, and we find ourselves in yet other working groups where we are expected to scaffold the group’s disability literacy just to remain at the table, so we began building Crip ’n Slide in earnest. The project is less a finished product than an ongoing practice—an archive, a map, a refusal of invisibility. It is comically incomplete, and it is not meant to be completed. Instead, it is meant to track what we learn, what we value, and what we notice together as disability justice unfolds in our work.

Crip ’n Slide is a way for us:

to learn more about what and who we love,
to respond—madly and criply—to coworking team-members’ requests for more information, and
to transform our deep sadness—about how the potential for collaboration is so often overrun by spoon-heavy exiling mechanisms—into a joyful celebration of our community into joy that resists exile and affirms our belonging.

We hope Crip ’n Slide may also serve other community members who encounter similar pressures: the expectation to teach as a condition of belonging. It is an offering of solidarity and a practice of kind accountability. If you see gaps, missteps, or opportunities for deepening, we invite you to be in touch through our contact form. This project is sustained not by extractive demand but by collective care.

Interactive Visualization - Proof of Concept

Data Behind the Visual - Ongoing

Axiology Clinic's Geneaological Crip 'n Slide

A

Interactive Visualization for A Terms here

Ableism

Abolition of Institutions

Abolitionist Access

Academic Co-optation

Access

Access Aesthetics

Access as Direct Action

Access as Innovation

Access Couture

Access Curriculum Design

Access Dystopias

Access Exceptionalism

Access Hacking

Access Intimacy

Access Intimacy in Design

Access is Love

Access Justice

Access Memes

Access Pedagogy

Access Refusal

Access Riders

Access Servers

Access Vigilence

Access Violence

Access Washing

Access-centered Film Production

Accessibility

Accessibility for All Campaign (전국 철도/지하철 엘리베이터 확대 운동)

Accessible Gaming

Adaptive Fashion

Aesthetic Access

African Disability Forum (ADF)

African Disability Protocol (2018)

Afrofuturist Crip/Mad Imaginaries

Afrofuturist Disability Aesthetics

Algorithmic Ableism

Algorithmic Sanism

Alt Text as Poetry

Alternatives Movement

Andean Access Design Practices

Andean Disability Cosmologies

Anishinaabe Healing Lodges

Anti-Ableist Pedagogy

Anti-Assimilation Crip Politics

Anti-Charity Politics

Anti-Cure Politics

Anti-Eugenics Education

Anti-Manicomial Movement (Brazil)

Anti-Oppression Access Riders

Anti-Oppressive Access

Anti-Productivity Politics

Anti-Psychiatry

Anti-Trans Bias in Disability Spaces

AOPD & Arab Decade (2004–2013)

April 20 Movement (4·20 장애인차별철폐 투쟁)

Arab Organization of Persons with Disabilities

Arabic disability poetics

Asia-Pacific Disability Forum (APDF)

Assistive Beauty Tech

Assistive Futurity

Assistive Tech Hacking

Augmentation vs. Accommodation

Autism Acceptance

Autism Warrior Moms

Autistic Pride

Avatar Access Politics

B

Bed Pushes

Benefit Surveillance

Biofeedback as Crip Praxis

Biohacking & Crip Praxis

Black Disability Politics

Black Madness / Mad Blackness

Body Hacking & Disability

Bodymind

Bodymind Autonomy

Bodymind Liberation

Brazilian Anti-Asylum Movement

Burden

C

Carceral Psychiatry

Care Politics

Care Webs

Caribbean Crip Futurism

Caste, madness, and colonial psychiatry

Ceremonial Madness

Charity Model

Charity Porn

Chronic Pain Advocacy

Chronicity

Clinical Gaze

Coercive Care

Cognitive Liberty

Collective Access

Collective Care in the Global South

Collective Mourning as Resistance

Colonial leprosy regimes

Community Night Schools (“Yihak / 夜學”) for Disabled (장애인 야학 운동)

Community-based rehabilitation (CBR)

Community-led rehabilitation (not charity)

Comparative disability anthropology

Compliance

Compulsory Able-Bodiedness

Compulsory Recovery

Compulsory Sanity

Consumer/Survivor/Ex-Patient (c/s/x)

Continental SRHR & disability

Counter-Accessibility

Counter-Archives of Psychiatry

Countervisuality (Disability)

Crazy

Creative Growth Art Center

Cree kinship of care

Creolised cripistemologies

Crip

Crip + Feminist Movements

Crip + Queer Liberation

Crip abolition in Global South prisons

Crip Aesthetics

Crip Arab Feminism

Crip Artivism

Crip Captioning

Crip Care

Crip Casting

Crip Cinema

Crip Cloud

Crip Commons

Crip Credentialism

Crip Dance

Crip Documentary

Crip Drag

Crip Femme Futures

Crip Futurism

Crip Futurity

Crip Game Studies

Crip Genealogies

Crip Hacking

Crip Hacktivism

Crip Humor

Crip Killjoy

Crip Kin-Aesthetics

Crip Kinship

Crip Lab

Crip Liberation

Crip Listening

Crip Machine Learning

Crip Modding

Crip Negativity

Crip Pedagogy

Crip Performance

Crip Poetics

Crip Politics of Refusal

Crip Prosthetics

Crip Refusal of Progress

Crip resistance in Gaza

Crip Robotics

Crip Spatialities

Crip Surveillance Studies

Crip Techno-Optimism

Crip Techno-Skepticism

Crip Technoscience

Crip Technoscientific Imaginaries

Crip Temporal Archives

Crip the Vote

Crip Theory

Crip Time

Crip Time in Design

Crip Utopia

Crip VR Critique

Crip Wealth

Crip Wearables

Crip Wisdom

Crip Zoom Cultures

Crip-Indigenous Techno-Practices

Crip-of-Color Critique

Crip/Mad + Environmental Justice

Crip/Mad + Housing Justice

Crip/Mad + Prison Abolition

Crip/Mad resistance in Lebanon

Crip/Sick Solidarity with Sex Work Activism

Cripface

Cripistemologies

Crisis Collectives

Critical Access Studies

Critical Accessibility

Critical Chronic Illness Studies

Critical Cripistemology

Critical Disability Aesthetics

Critical Disability Studies

Critical Medical Humanities

Critical Psychiatry in India

Cultural Ableism

Cultural Memory of Asylums

Cure

Cure Industrial Complex

Cure Refusal

Cursed / Bewitched

Clinical Yarning / Yarning in health

D

Dalit Disability Studies

Data Colonialism & Disability

Deaf and Mental Health in Kenya

Deaf education in Kenya

Deaf Gain

Decolonial Access Design

Decolonial critique of “universal” access

Decolonial disability futurities

Decolonial Madness

Decolonial Neurodiversity

Decolonising disability studies

Decorative/Artistic Prostheses

Deficit Model

Design Justice

Developmental Ableism

Diagnostic Creep

Diagnostic Violence

Die-ins

Digital Access Archives

Digital Care Pods

Diné (Navajo) hózhó & disability

Direct Access Actions

Disability & Climate Justice

Disability & climate vulnerability (Africa)

Disability & development critique

Disability & extractivism

Disability & Labor Justice

Disability & Migrant Justice

Disability Aesthetics

Disability Arts Movement

Disability as product of colonial encounter

Disability Coloniality

Disability Commodification

Disability Culture

Disability Digital Archives

Disability Discrimination Removal Campaign (장애인차별철폐 운동)

Disability Drag

Disability Erasure

Disability Futility Trope

Disability in Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh al-maʿāqīn)

Disability justice

Disability Justice (DJ)

Disability Justice & Long COVID

Disability Justice + Global South Solidarity

Disability Justice Access Check-ins

Disability Justice Dreaming

Disability Justice Legacy

Disability Justice Lineages

Disability Justice Praxis

Disability Justice Principles

Disability Poetics

Disability Police

Disability Respectability Politics

Disability Studies

Disability Studies Without Borders

Disability Tropes in Media

Disability Uncare

Disability Under Siege (Palestine/Lebanon/Jordan)

Disability Visibility

Disability-centered HCI (Human-Computer Interaction)

Disability-Led Innovation

Disability, poverty, and post/colonial policy

Disabled Ecologies

Disabled Embodiment

Disabled Erotics

Disabled Futures

Disabled Kinship

Disabled Peoples’ International (DPI)

Disabled Queer of Color Critique

Disabled Women’s Movement (장애여성운동)

Distinctions-based Indigenous disability

DIY Accessibility

Dreaming, Madness, and Land

Dyslexic Pride

Dyspraxia / Developmental Coordination Difference

E

Eco-(in)justice & disablement

Eco-Ableism

Ecologies of Access

Embodied Access Scores

Embodied Pedagogy

Embodimindments

End the Torture

Enfleshed Knowledge

Environmental Illness Activism

Eugenic Colonialism

Eugenic Tech

Eugenics

European Network of (Ex-) Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (ENUSP)

Existence Itself Is a Right (존재 자체가 권리다)

Exoskeleton Critique

Egyptian (Arabic) Sign Language (EASL)

F

Fibro Warriors

Forced Institutionalization Pre-Olympics (올림픽 장애인 은폐 정책)

Freedom as Access

Fuck Stigma

Fugitivity (Disability/Mad)

First Peoples Disability Network (FPDN)

G

Geopolitics

Global South feminist disability

Gongjon / Coexistence, Mutual Survival (공존)

Greenwashing Access

Gift

H

Haptic Feedback Wearables

Harmful practices against persons with albinism

Haudenosaunee Restorative Healing

Healing Justice

Healthism

Hearing Voices Movement

HIV/AIDS and Madness

HIV/AIDS disablement

Hyperfocus

Hauā Mana Māori research

Helm (NGO) & Helm Academy

I

Inclusion as Branding

Inclusive Game Communities

Incurable

Indigenous access protocols

Indigenous Digital Sovereignty

Indigenous disability arts as knowledge

Indigenous disability self-determination/sovereignty

Indigenous Disability/Mad Survivance

Indigenous education/Inclusive education (Sāmoa)

Indigenous futurisms

Indigenous Futurisms & Access

Indigenous Latin American disability politics

Indigenous Mad Futurisms

Indigenous Mad Studies

Indigenous Mad studies (dialogical)

Indigenous Peer Support Circles

Indigenous Reframings of Attention

Indigenous Reframings of Cognitive & Sensory Difference

Indigenous survivance

Indigenous Trauma Frameworks

Inspiration Economy

Inspiration Porn

Institutionalization

Interdependence

Intersectionality

Intersectional Disability Justice

Intersectional Identity Discourse (교차정체성 담론)

Invalid

Islamicate disability ethics

Indigenous Disability Canada / BCANDS (IDC/BCANDS)

Indigeneity & Disability (DSQ special issue)

Inuit disability & colonial harms

J

Jangae Queer / Disabled Queer (장애퀴어)

Justice

Justice for Joyce

Justice for Kayla Moore

Jordan’s Principle

K

Korean Disability Registration System (KNDRS / 한국장애인등록제도)

Krip

Krip Artivism

Krip Futurity

Krip-Hop

Krip-Hop Nation

Kripistemologies

Kalaoon Hospital (14th c. Egypt)

L

Land Back & Disability Justice

Land/body disablement under settler colonialism

Latin American Network of Psychosocial Disability

Latin American Psicocomunidad

Lazy

Legalism in Korean Disability Rights (한국 장애권 법률주의 운동)

Liberation Not Normalization

Lived Experience Leadership

Lived Experience Testimonies

Lived Expertise

Loco

Long COVID Activism

Long COVID Collectives

Law No. 10 of 2018 (Rights of Persons with Disabilities) - Egypt

M

Mad

Mad + Climate Justice

Mad + Crip Solidarity

Mad + Global South Solidarity

Mad + Indigenous Sovereignty

Mad + Queer/Trans Solidarity

Mad + Racial Justice

Mad Aesthetics

Mad Algorithmic Resistance

Mad Artivism

Mad Casting

Mad Choreographies

Mad Cinema

Mad Circus

Mad Community Care

Mad Crip Poetics of Space

Mad Crip Politics of Joy

Mad Crip Survival Strategies

Mad Data Epistemologies

Mad Digital Mutual Aid

Mad Futurism

Mad Game Studies

Mad Justice

Mad Killer Trope

Mad Knowledge

Mad Liberation

Mad Listening

Mad Mapping

Mad Music Cultures

Mad Negativity

Mad Pedagogy

Mad Poetics

Mad Poetry

Mad Pride

Mad Pride + Deaf Gain

Mad Pride Day

Mad Pride Ghana

Mad Pride South Africa (psych survivor movements)

Mad Pride Toronto (1993–)

Mad Pride UK

Mad Refusal

Mad Studies

Mad Studies Collective (Canada/UK)

Mad Studies in South Asia

Mad Studies in the Classroom

Mad Surveillance

Mad Theatre

Mad Uncare

Mad Women of Color

Mad Zine Archives

Mad Zines

Mad/Crip Fab Labs

Mad/ND Gatekeeping

Madness and Caste

Madness in Caribbean Creolized Contexts

Madness under Dictatorship

Madres de la Plaza de Mayo & Psychiatric Resistance

Majnoon (Arabic: “possessed by jinn”)

Martyrdom, injury, and disability politics

Materialist global disability

ME/CFS Activism

Medical AI Bias

Medical Colonialism

Medical Gatekeeping

Medical Gatekeeping (의료 게이트키핑)

Medical Model

Medical Racism

Meds Mutual Aid

Memory Activism

MENA disability arts as counter-narrative

MENA Disability Tech Cultures

Mentally Ill

Métis & Cree perspectives on distress

Métis disability sovereignty

Mobility Rights Are Survival Rights (이동권은 생존권)

Mobility Rights Movement Korea (이동권 운동)

N

Narrative Prosthesis

National Black Disability Coalition

ND Representation in Media

ND Superpower Trope

Neoliberal Ableism

Neoliberal Resilience

Neuroableism

Neurodivergence

Neurodivergent + Design Justice

Neurodivergent Burnout

Neurodivergent Internet Cultures

Neurodivergent Masking

Neurodivergent Music Practices

Neurodiverse Aesthetics

Neurodiverse Coding Cultures

Neurodiverse Futurism

Neurodiverse Game Design

Neurodiversity in the Global South

Neurodiversity Paradigm

Neuroqueer

Neurotypical

No Body is Disposable

Nonprofit Industrial Complex (Disability/Mad)

Normalcy Regime

Normalization

Not Dead Yet

Nothing About Us Without Us

Nothing Without Us

NDIS marketization & remote access gap

NZ Disability Strategy & Whaikaha

O

Online Sick Zine Culture

Open Dialogue

Open Source Access Tools

Oral History as Access

Our Bodies, Our Rights

Overcomer

Oyibo-mad

P

Pace of Crip Time

Pacific Islander disablement under climate change

Pacing

Palestinian OPDs & law

Palestinian Trauma Studies

Pan African Network of People with Psychosocial Disabilities (PANUSP)

Park Kyoung-seok Leadership (박경석 운동 리더십)

Paternalism

Pathologizing Difference

Patient

Peer Respite

Peer-Led Alternatives

Peer-to-Peer Access Learning

Piss on Pity

Platform Access Politics

Pluriversal crip genealogies

Pluriversal Design

Politics of Care

Post-apartheid disability movements

Postcolonial Trauma

Posthuman Disability Studies

Precarity of Access

Prison-Disability Nexus

Productivity Mandate

Profit-Driven Access

Project LETS (Let’s Erase the Stigma)

Prosthetic Fashion Performance

Psych Abolition + Prison Abolition

Psych Reductionism

Psych Survivors

Psychiatric Abolition

Psychiatric Colonialism

Psychiatric Imperialism

Psychiatric Surveillance

Psychiatric Survivor Activism in Ghana

Psychiatric Survivor Movements in Africa

Psychiatric Survivor Poetry in South Asia

Psychiatric Violence

Psycho

Psychologization

Psychopolitics

Psychoprofessionalism

Psychosocial Disability

Psychosocial Disability Movements in Africa (e.g., PANUSP)

Q

Queer & Disabled Solidarity at Pride (서울퀴어문화축제)

Queer Crip Kinship

Queercrip

R

Radical Access Mapping

Radical Rest

Ragged Edge Collective

Recovery Movement

Refugee disablement

Refugee Mad Survivors’ Testimonies

Refugee Mental Health Collectives (Jordan/Palestine)

Refusal of Diagnosis

Refusal of Inclusion

Refusal of Legibility

Rehabilitation Critique

Rehabilitation Model

Relational access/ecologies (Indigenous versions)

Relational Design Epistemologies

Relational Healing

Resistance to Coercion ("Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA)")

Rest as Performance

Rest as Resistance

Rights Not Charity

Rush-Hour Subway Protests (지하철 출퇴근 시위)

S

Sámi disability & assimilation critique

Sami understandings of “madness”

Sanism

Sanism in Horror Tropes

Sanism Within Disability Rights

Sanist Risk Logic

Self-diagnosis

Shame is Public

Sick & Disabled Mutual Aid

Sick + Disability Justice

Sick + Disabled Queer/Trans Lineages

Sick Aesthetics in Film

Sick Crip Queer Time

Sick Day Politics

Sick Digital Infrastructures

Sick Futurities

Sick Game Mechanics

Sick Liberation

Sick Memory Work

Sick Monster Trope

Sick of It!

Sick Performance Art

Sick Queer Futures

Sick Refusal

Sick Woman Theory

Sick Woman Theory (as Performance Praxis)

SickTok

Sins Invalid

Sit-ins for Access

Smart City Ableism

Smart Crip Wearables

Smart Fabrics for Access

Solidarity Against Disability Discrimination (SADD / 장애인차별철폐연대)

South-to-South disability solidarities

Spoon Theory

Spoonie Culture

Stimming

Studio Access Practices

Subway Chaining Actions (지하철 결박 행동)

Sufi Healing & Madness

Supercrip

Survival Beyond Family (가족 바깥의 생존)

Survival Justice

Survivor Knowledge

Survivor Refusal

Survivor-Elite Divide

Synesthetic Perception

T

Tangled Art + Disability

Te Whare Tapa Whā

The Disability Visibility Project

Therapeutic State

Therapeutic Violence

Tic Culture/Tourette’s

Tokenism

Toxic Inclusion

Toxic Positivity

Tragic but Brave

Tragic Victim

Trans Crip Futures

Transnational Peer Survivor Networks (Global South)

Transnationalising disability studies

Transregional OPD coalitions

Trauma-Informed Access

Trauma-Informed Care

Treatment Resistance

Trickster Epistemologies (e.g., Coyote, Raven, Nanabush)

Two-Spirit Disability/Crip Practices

Te Wheke / Te Pae Mahutonga

Tāngata whaikaha Māori / whānau hauā

U

Ubuntu and Mental Health

Ubuntu disability ethics

Ubuntu in Design and Disability Justice

Ubuntu-based Mad praxis

Universal Design

Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

University Entrance Disability Discrimination Case (장애인 대학입학 차별 소송, 1980)

User/Survivor Networks in Uganda

V

Virtual Access Worlds

Voice-hearer

W

War-disablement & humanitarian access

We Are Not Alone

We Belong

We Move Together

We Will Ride

Weak

Wearable Surveillance

Wellness Industrial Complex

Wellness Violence

Wellnesswashing

Whānau hauā

Whānau Ora

Wheelchair Users Blockade (휠체어 탑승 지연 시위)

White Disability Studies

Whitewashing Disability

Witchcraft accusations and disabled/mad children

World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (WNUSP)

WRAP (Wellness Recovery Action Plan)

X

Y

Yahak Solidarity / Night School Solidarity (야학 연대)

Yarning Circles and Mental Health

Z

Zapatista disability praxis

#

#AbledsAreWeird

#AccessIsLove

#CripTheVote

#DisabilityTooWhite

#DisabledAndCute

#MadPride

#MadStudies

#MadTwitter

#MillionsMissing

#NEISvoid

#NothingAboutUsWithoutUs

#PatientsAreNotFaking

#PsychSurvivor

#WeShallNotBeRemoved

10 Principles of Disability Justice

Frameworks

Core Disability Justice + Crip Theory Vocabulary
Mad, Sick, and Neurodivergent Movements
Cross-Pollinations with Art, Design, and Tech
Activist/Community-Created Frameworks
Critical Counter-Vocabulary

Tagging Logic

By Content Role

concept - general theoretical idea - Examples: Ableism, Crip Time
oppression - structural harms - Examples: Sanism, Data Colonialism & Disability
justice - justice principles - Examples: Disability Justice, Access Justice
refusal - negation, refusal, negativity - Examples: Cure Refusal, Mad Refusal
abolition - abolitionist terms - Examples: Psychiatric Abolition, Abolitionist Access
critique - counter-terms - Examples: Neoliberal Ableism, Wellnesswashing

By Form/Medium

strategy/tactic - protest/activist method - Examples: Bed Pushes, Sit-ins
practice - embodied/community practice - Examples: Access Riders, Peer Respite
pedagogy - teaching method - Examples: Crip Pedagogy, Access Curriculum Design
aesthetic - arts/design style - Examples: Crip Aesthetics, Mad Aesthetics
archive - memory/history practices - Examples: Mad Zine Archives, Oral History as Access
futurity - speculative/visionary - Examples: Mad Futurism, Indigenous Mad Futurisms
trope - stereotype/cultural trope - Examples: Supercrip, Mad Killer Trope
model - structured health/education/design framework - Examples: Te Whare Tapa Whā, UDL
policy - laws/policy frameworks - Examples: Law No. 10/2018 Egypt, Jordan’s Principle
org - organizations/collectives - Examples: FPDN, WNUSP, IDC/BCANDS
slogan - movement phrase - Examples: Piss on Pity, Nothing About Us Without Us
hashtag - digital campaigns - Examples: #CripTheVote, #DisabilityTooWhite
tool - technical tool - Examples: Open Source Access Tools, Crip Machine Learning
philosophy - movement philosophies, condensed epistemologies - Examples: Access is Love, Nothing About Us Without Us

By Domain/Field

arts/media
design
tech/AI
game/VR
fashion
education
health/psych
policy/law
protest

By Lineage/Movement Roots

DJ (Disability Justice)
crip theory
mad studies
neurodiversity
sick/CI
Indigenous - *nation in lineage field
GlobalSouth
MENA
Afrofuturism
design justice
abolitionist
queer/trans
intersectional

By Status - distinction between literature/discourse and practice/movement

anchored - documented in scholarship/activism
emerging - active but not widely stabilized yet
placeholder - conceptual proposal, not established

By Principles of Disability Justice

1-intersectionality
2-leadership-of-most-impacted
3-anti-capitalist-politics
4-cross-movement-solidarity
5-wholeness
6-sustainability
7-cross-disability-solidarity
8-interdependence
9-collective-liberation
10-collective-access

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