About this Event
Crip Scripts is a workshop series for writers who live with, move with, or write toward chronicillness, disability, and cripped embodiment. Across the session, we’ll explore how narrative itself can become a site of resistance — where coherence unravels, time loops or thickens, and bodies speak in registers beyond cure or clarity. Together, we’ll read texts that defy neat arcs of suffering and recovery, and experiment with our own modes of writing that make space for repetition, pain, interruption, pleasure, slowness, refusal, and transformation. Grounded in the principles of narrative cripping—a practice of destabilising normative storytelling structures—this workshop invites participants to write from the porous edges of their experiences, and to honour forms of knowledge produced through altered states, medical trauma, care entanglements, and crip time.
Writers of all genres and backgrounds are welcome, especially those identifying as disabled, chronically ill, neurodivergent, or sick. You don’t need to call yourself a writer to join — just bring a body, and a willingness to be with it on the page.
Facilitator: Kat Benedict
Bio: Kat Benedict (they/them) is a poet, writer and facilitator whose work explores disability, chronic illness, and alternative narrative forms. Their practice is led by questions of death, memory, grief, literacies and erotics: through the body, the page and the archive. Their ongoing project, Crip Scripts celebrates disabled and crip modes of writing and publishing.Benedict’s essays have been published in ArtReview, BlackFlash Magazine, esse arts + opinions, SLEEK, AQNB, and C Magazine. Their poems appear in Terra Firma Magazine, SLEEK, Sunday Mornings At The River, and will be included in the forthcoming anthology Tendrils: Ecopoetics of Community and Justice (Silver Press). They are the co-editor of UNFURL, a publication of new autistic writing on special interests and hyperfixations. They are a co-facilitator of the London Queer Death Café, a monthly reflective, supportive space for LGBTQ2IA++ individuals to openly discuss death, grief and end-of-life care within a queer context.
Access information:
Getting here
To reach The Feminist Library, the closest tube station is Peckham Rye (1.3km away) which is not step-free. The route from Peckham Rye station is step-free but not level throughout. The nearest wheelchair accessible tube station is Queen’s Road Peckham, via a boarding ramp. Bus stops for routes 63, 363, 381, and 78 can all be found nearby. The closest bus stop (for routes 63 and 363 only) is ~330m away, the route is step free and level.
Arrival
The Sojourner Truth Centre which houses the Library is completely step-free with level floors through-out.
Ring the Feminist Library bells at the doorway (at 137cm), or call us in advance and you will be met. There is a slight depression in the floor where the welcome mat meets the floor. The door is 137cm wide, heavy, and is not automated.
A Library Opener will greet you when you arrive and open the door, please let us know if there is any way large or small to make your visit easier. There is no obligation to chat, you can write a message down and show them if you would prefer or email in advance.
There are three doorways to pass through to access the main Library hall. Foyer double door does not stay open on its own. Floors are smooth and may be slippery if wet.
The main Library Hall is a completely step-free space, with level floors throughout. There is a set of double doors into the hall, and typically only one of them is propped open. We will open both on request. We have a variety of chairs including wide seats, and chairs with arm/back-rests. All chairs have back rests. If you need to reserve an armchair or sofa space please get in touch.
There is a narrow kitchen with crockery and cutlery, a mini fridge, and a microwave. You are welcome to bring food into the library, or use the teas and coffee in the kitchen. There is a Londis 72m (~2 mins) away which is step free and level throughout, with a step free route from the library, though please note the pavement may not be level.
Toilets are all gender neutral. There is one accessible toilet, which does not require a radar key, and two toilet rooms, located just across from library hall, offering cubicles and a urinal. Pull-down changing table is available in the accessible toilet.
Children are welcome but we do not have a creche.
Assistance pets are welcome in the Library. There may be dogs in the Library on occasion, please let us know if you are not comfortable with this.
Hand sanitiser and masks are available. Let the Openers know if you would like others to be masked.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Feminist Library, 161 Sumner Road, London, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
