Crip Photography by Lewis Figun Westbrook: Crip Futures Collection
Disability Pride Month initially started as a single day of celebration in 1990, the year that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law in the United States. The city of Boston held the first Disability Pride Day that year. Then, in July 2015, after years of advocacy, the first official celebration of Disability Pride Month was held, commemorating the 25th anniversary of the ADA. Today, we recognize Disability Pride Month as a cultural and political movement built on decades of international organizing, resistance, and care work.
The Catalyst is a blog and community hub for the work of healers, organizers, artists, and storytellers. Throughout Disability Pride Month, artists, writers, activists, and healers were invited to submit their work for our Crip Futures collection. The following photographs were taken by Lewis Figun Westbrook in 2024.
Image Descriptions
Sodium Intake: A queer, disabled person with short hair and a beard holding a sodium solution in a jar. They are wearing purple tortoiseshell-patterned glasses. His shirt is red, blue, and white. She has a nose ring.
Salted Drink: A queer, disabled person with short hair and a beard holding a sodium solution in a jar. Their arm is extended out in front of himself, obscuring the view. She is wearing a red, blue, and white shirt. You can see they have a tattoo on their forearm.
Lewis Figun Westbrook (all pronouns/no genders) will always prefer their bio be a joke but apparently that isn’t professional. They are a queer writer of too many genres and artist of too many things. He is currently published in Love Gone Wrong and FatherFather. Find them on most social media @lewisrllw