...most ecosystems these days share more kinship with disabled bodies given that they have been changed and interrupted by pollution and anthropogenic development. I have been offering more and more as someone with incurable genetic illness and PTSD, that it is to the neurodivergent, the chronically ill, the disabled, the terminally ill, the survivors who we must turn for information on how to come into relationship with beings and landscapes that are intimate with harm and impairment.
Check out Making Kin with Disability by Sophie Strand.
