From Malik: “Couldn’t have said it better myself. If this doesn’t help mostly white disabled people realize that you’re NOT “reclaiming” anything by calling yourself a “crip” but ambivalently appropriating and disregarding real life experiences for people, I don’t know what will. If “cripple” is the slur you want to reclaim, use the whole word.… Continue reading Crip vs. Crip
Category: General
Portraits #1
Cell ins
[From 1/13 to 1/16, Malik was restricted to their cell and unable to use the phone or tablet. This is a statement they wrote on the 14th, during the cell in.] What used to be the state hospital, and infamous for the movie “The One that Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” now a prison, was… Continue reading Cell ins
Sketchbook pages #4
Venezuela
It’s tiring to wake up day after day, wondering whose blood we as americans will have on our hands next. The u.s is, in fact, not the only imperialist settler colonial state, and yet it is unique in its sheer scope of violence and destruction worldwide. Today, I woke up to the news of the… Continue reading Venezuela
On Fedjacketing
Context: From September to November of 2025, Eric King, a white anarchist and former political prisoner, went on a campaign to fedjacket and dox one of Malik’s siblings and outside supporters. Eric began spreading public rumors that his target, a woman of color in the prisoner solidarity movement, was an undercover cop who had stolen… Continue reading On Fedjacketing