ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors explore ways in which disability is desired, and how the desire for disabled death and disabled life affects the ways they move through the world as disabled cis-gendered women who are together in disability artistic, activist and scholarly communities. Representing disability other than the cultural desire to expunge is important political work – it may be necessary for our survival. A future wherein disability is merely tolerated – likely temporarily and contingently – and leaves normative culture undisrupted. A crip future led and created by disabled people, rooted in disability studies, and imagined through disability art must desire disability for all its disruptions. Disability justice activists have necessarily complicated activist efforts. The achievement of disability rights and, within them, greater access to social, civic and economic participation does not necessarily lead to living a fulfilled life.
