courtney wade (they/them)

is a genderqueer/neuroqueer/generally queer, disabled cultural worker, artist, and writer of poetry, philosophy, and historiography.

They create multimedia visual art - photography, infographics, zines, and acrylic paintings - rooted in abolitionist and disability, transformative, and healing justice lineages. Their harm reduction art is currently utilized throughout the University of North Carolina System and in syringe access and fentanyl test strip programs across North Carolina.

To use their infodumping powers for good, they founded the Disabled, Autistic, Mad, & Neuroqueer (DAMN) Solidarity Project, which engages cultural strategy to imagine access, sociality, and community otherwise.

Their current work explores pandemic politics, covid-consciousness, and solidarity-building from a crip, queer, immunocompromised, and remote sitpoint.