Episode 4: Cr!p Justice/Mad Justice with Theodore Walker Robinson
What is disability justice? This episode features a thought provoking conversation with artist Theodore Walker Robinson, who helps unpack the transformative principles behind crip and mad justice. These frameworks go beyond medical understandings of disability rights and roots us in the contextual present where life as it is, is maddening and disabling.
Together, we explore how the mental health sector often fails to make space for those who are neurodivergent, blind, Deaf, autistic, and disabled. What would it mean to reimagine care, support, and access from the expertise of those living it?
We dive into what it means to build futures that are not just inclusive of, but led by, disabled, mad, and Deaf people. Theodore reflects on the emotional weight of being “the first” in predominantly able-bodied spaces, we discuss the power and necessity of self-determination, and artistry as a disabled person. This episode is a deep invitation to think toward a world where justice, care, and liberation are co-created with disabled communities at the center.
