Jennifer Juniper > Recent Status Updates

"To give respectful help is a process of becoming aware of our own capacity in the moment. It takes practice to know providing help is not always convenient and boundaries can also exist. Grappling with interdependence necessitates slowing down, listening, disappointing each other, and mending"

“The US child welfare industry is a broken, violent machine rooted in ableism, white supremacy, and systemic oppression. We are all ensnared. As a Disability Justice dreamer, I believe that if we practiced collective care and wrapped support around struggling families, perhaps more children & parents could heal together, w/o ever separating.” A ‘Justice Dream’ in which state power cedes to community support.

“Those of us whose disabilities aren’t physically apparent often live in the schism pretense creates- we’re fine until we’re not, pretend until we can’t, our minds and bodies suffering through the unnecessary demands to which ableist culture clings”

The Exhaustion of Pretense and the Illusions of Care

“Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.”