Crip Stories

The word crip was once used to discriminate. Today, it is reclaimed and celebrated.

Crip Stories is a gathering of vibrant and diverse experiences from disabled people. A collection of narrative non-fiction, essays and poetry, it affirms the ethos of ‘nothing about us without us’ by amplifying first-person narrative voices of lived experience.

With contributors including Carly Findlay, TextaQueen, CB Mako, Carly-Jay Metcalfe, Skye Cusack, Jenny Hedley, Akii Ngo, Sharleigh Crittenden, Angela Costi, Hen Sid Chandran, Ari Spanos, Sandra Collins, J Marahuyo, Mario Licón Cabrera, Franklyn Hudson, Ann Nguyen, Rosie Putland, Priya Gore Johnson, Mona Zahra Attamimi, Joey Harper, Judith Huang, Pat Bui, Kerri Shying, Arty Owens, Irina Frolova, Hannah Hall, Julie Dickson, Marina Sano, Ariel Riveros, Ethan Patrick, Paris Rosemont, Sam Hamad.

About the Author

BS Windon is a neurodivergent writer of Wiradjuri descent based in Naarm. He writes quirky stories about quirky people and all of the dark goo living inside him. He is more confident on a stage in front of an audience than in social gatherings.

Laura Pettenuzzo (she/her) is a disabled writer, speaker and accessible communications professional. Her work explores disability pride, systemic and internalised ableism, as well as the power of self-acceptance. Her reviews, memoir and opinion pieces have been published in places such as Griffith Review, Archer Magazine, Meanjin and The Age.

Misbah Wolf (she/they) is a CALD neurodivergent multidimensional artist living in Naarm. She writes books, poetry, performs, teaches, researches, and creates. Her creative work – which explores love, be/longing, ghosts, wildness– anything gothic – has appeared in many places.

Katie Hansord (she/they) is a neurodivergent and queer writer and researcher in Naarm. Her interests include poetry, gender, disability, and print cultures, and her writing has been published in Mascara, Unusual Work, LOR Journal, and the Long Paddock, Southerly Journal.