What Is a Crip Resilience Hub?
A Crip Resilience Hub is a collaborative organizing model where 3–6 disability-centered organizations come together to share resources, knowledge, infrastructure, and events. It is a strategic alignment built for mutual support, sustainability, and collective resilience—especially in the face of systemic barriers, political attacks, climate crisis, and burnout.
At Calling Up Justice, Crip Resilience Hubs are part of how we produce our work more accessibly and more sustainably. Rather than each organization struggling alone, we braid capacity together. We practice interdependence as infrastructure.
This is not just about survival.
It is a prefigurative structure—a way of modeling the future we want by building it now. Crip Resilience Hubs embody:
- Interdependence over isolation
- Access intimacy over compliance
- Distributed leadership over hierarchy
- Care, rest, and resistance as central pillars
Each organization retains its unique identity while benefiting from shared infrastructure.
Why Crip Resilience?
Mainstream organizing models often replicate ableist hierarchies and overwork. The Crip Resilience Hub flips this script.
- It reduces redundancy.
- It maximizes impact.
- It centers access from the beginning.
- It allows underfunded, grassroots, and BIPOC-led organizations to scale sustainably without losing integrity.
This is a living model—flexible, adaptive, and designed to weather crisis while nourishing our communities.
Crip Resilience Hubs in Our Practice
Calling Up Justice works within multiple hub configurations depending on the program. Below are examples from our ecosystem.
Crip Create Hub
Program: Crip Create (weekly online co-working and Disability Justice space)
Hub Partners:
- The Curiosity Paradox
- Catalyst Consulting Associates LLC
- Calling Up Justice
- Crip Create Rising
How the Hub Functions:
- Shared facilitation and hosting rotation
- Collective grant writing and fiscal coordination
- Access services coordination (captions, facilitation design, pacing)
- Mutual amplification of weekly sessions
- Shared documentation and archival practice
Crip Create models how small organizations can co-lead a long-running, consistent program without burning out any single team.
Accessible Virtual Pride Hub
Program: Accessible Virtual Pride
Hub Partners:
- One Free Community
- Calling Up Justice
What We Share:
- Virtual infrastructure and platform hosting
- Collaborative programming design
- Shared access services
- Creative production (livestreaming, digital art spaces, workshops)
This hub allows us to produce large-scale virtual cultural experiences that center disabled, queer, trans, and BIPOC communities—without replicating extractive event models.
DJ1 Crip Resilience Hub
A Deep Collaboration Model
In collaboration with:
- Disability Justice Culture Club
- One Free Community
- Calling Up Justice
We have been building the DJ1 Crip Resilience Hub.
What Makes DJ1 Distinct
DJ1 is not just shared programming—it is shared capacity building.
We:
- Meet weekly to refine how we support each other organizationally
- Share access services across events
- Share tech tools and digital infrastructure
- Co-produce programming and cultural events
- Strategize collectively about sustainability and political conditions
- Practice mutual aid and coordinated response
This is where we perfect the art of organizational interdependence.
Supported By
The DJ1 Crip Resilience Hub is supported by funding from Borealis Philanthropy, which allows us to invest deeply in collaborative infrastructure rather than only project-based outputs.