LIVING ALTARS

amplifying, connecting and building power by and for disabled QTBIPOC writers

image description: images of disabled QTBIPOC performers Lucia Leandro Gimeno, Naima Lowe, Stefani Echeverria-Fenn, Juba Kalamka, Stacey Park Milbern, Meliza Banles and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinha and the words "living altars: disabled qtbipoc writers transforming pandemic grief. curated by leah lakshmi piepzna-samarasinha. "2022 NQAF25" logo is in purple

  • Living Altars is a a small kitchen table disabled queer brown cultural work project that aims to build power, kinship and support among disabled, sick, neurodivergent, Mad and Deaf/ HOH queer, trans and Two Spirit Black, Indigenous and POC writers and creators.

    conceived of in 2020 by me, disability justice writer, curator and movement worker Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha out of the grief of the passing of my friend and comrade Stacey Park Milbern, Living Altars curates and hosts performances, organizes the Stacey Park Milbern Liberation Arts Residency, is building a low key disabled QTBIPOC writers/ creators life story oral history project, may host concrete skill shares, and definitely hosts occasional meet ups where we can write together, share about our work and the questions we are sitting with.

    Living Altars makes spaces for disabled non-white folks to connect and build across the fake borders and pandemic and other isolations. In the midst of this climate collapse, pandemics, eugenics fascist time, we do something that’s always been at the heart of DJ- creative and cultural work. we are a movement of storytellers, witches, seers and preppers.

    We are a fiscally sponsored project of the Autistic Women and Nonbinary Network and supported by the Borealis Disability Inclusion Fund‘s Disabled Joy grant.