You Ask Us

In:

#LookBeyond the prisons we let kill you

cripples burn them to the ground!

#LookBeyond the institutions we let hide you

cripples kick the locked doors down!

#LookBeyond the hospitals we let hurt you

cripples organise health care for the people!

#LookBeyond the workshops we let rob you

cripples end the slavery you make legal!

#LookBeyond the poverty we let starve you

cripples give to each according to their needs!

#LookBeyond the providers we let exploit you

cripples sabotage their greed!

#LookBeyond the doctors we let gaslight you

cripples share the treatments they conceal!

#LookBeyond the psychs we let detain you

cripples help ourselves to heal!

#LookBeyond the pigs we let bash you

cripples abolish every cop!

#LookBeyond the “support” workers we let assault you

cripples ensure the rapists lose their jobs!

#LookBeyond the teachers we let cage you

cripples learn to educate each other!

#LookBeyond the fascists we let terrorise you

cripples act to make them suffer!

#LookBeyond your dead and dying

cripples memorialise every name!

#LookBeyond your grief and suffering

cripples transform our anger and our pain!

About the author

Mali Hermans (she/they) is a disabled and neurodivergent Koori and European woman living in Meanjin/Brisbane. Mali is an organiser, writer, community worker and socialist deeply invested in disability justice and abolitionist work.

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