Jennifer Juniper’s Reviews > Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire > Status Update

“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