crip doula: a term created by disability justice organizer Stacey Park Milbern to describe the ways disabled people support/mentor newly disabled people in learning disabled skills (how to live on very low spoons, drive a wheelchair, have sex/redefine sexuality, etc.) A doula supports someone doing the work of childbirth; a crip doula is a dis-abled person supporting another disabled person as they do the work of becoming disabled, or differently disabled, of dreaming a new dis-abled life/world into being.

from Leah Lakshmi Piepazna-Samarasinha, ‘The Future Is Disabled’ Imagines a World Oriented Around Care and Safety

Links to others who use this term as part of their practice

MAD CRIP DOULA https://www.stefaniekaufman.com/madcripdoula

Meet A Crip Doula: Tired Of Lip Service, Heather McCain Takes Accessibility Into Their Own Hands https://www.bcdisability.com/post/meet-a-crip-doula

ON ‘CRIP DOULAS,’ INVISIBLE LABOR, AND SURVIVING ACADEMIA WHILE DISABLED http://journalofmultimodalrhetorics.com/5-1-issue-hubrig

‘The Future Is Disabled’ Imagines a World Oriented Around Care and Safety https://www.teenvogue.com/story/future-is-disabled-book