Much of the anarchist tradition rejects the ideology of individualism and focuses on mutual aid, or, in queer-crip language: interdependence. If disability studies and activism could offer a corrective to the anarchist practice of mutual reliance it will be to the concept of DIY, including anarcho-primitivism, which is DIY culture taken to an extreme. A focus on self-reliance and a “return to nature” requires a non-disabled body for its ideal society. Such calls will have a devastating effect on the lives of disabled people who truly embody a spirit of mutual aid every day by relying on personal assistants, friends, and family members to achieve independence abd autonomy, also core practices of anarchism. Through a queer-crip lens we should perhaps focus more on DIT – Do It Together.
Liat Bent-Moshe, Anthony J. Nocella and AJ Withers in: Queer-Cripping Anarchism
