Calling Up Justice in collaboration with the Disability Justice Culture Club and One Free Community has crafted the idea of the Crip Reliance Hub. A Crip Resilience Hub is a collaborative organizing model where 3–6 disability-centered organizations come together to share resources, knowledges, and events. It’s a strategic alignment designed for mutual support, sustainability, and collective resilience—especially in the face of systemic barriers and burnout.
This hub is not just about survival—it’s a prefigurative structure, modeling the future we want by building it now. It embodies interdependence, access intimacy, and distributed leadership, allowing each organization to retain its unique identity while benefiting from shared infrastructure.
Key Features:
- Shared Resources:
- Administrative tools, tech platforms, and funding strategies
- Staff support (e.g., access coordinators, ASL interpreters, grant writers)
- Space (virtual or physical), event hosting tools, and mutual aid networks
- Shared Knowledges:
- Skill-shares, teach-ins, and collaborative documentation
- Resource libraries (guides, protocols, recordings, templates)
- Collective learning from lived experiences and disability expertise
- Shared Events:
- Co-hosted panels, workshops, art shares, and actions
- Mutual amplification of programs and campaigns
- Coordinated response to current events and community needs
Why Crip Resilience?
Mainstream organizing models often replicate ableist hierarchies and overwork. The Crip Resilience Hub flips this script, centering care, rest, and resistance as central pillars. It reduces redundancy, maximizes impact, and allows for sustainable scaling of disability justice work—especially for underfunded, grassroots, and BIPOC-led organizations.
This is a living model—flexible, adaptive, and designed to weather crisis while nourishing our communities.