Norfolk Mountain Rescue and Creating Mad Joy
In a world designed to crush disabled people, Dolly Sen creates crip joy through absurd community projects, mountain rescues and anti-racist potato songs. The world is getting harder and harder to live in, and disabled people are getting the sharpest end of it. I am doing my bit to fight for rights and justice, which ... Norfolk Mountain Rescue and Creating Mad Joy
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In a world designed to crush disabled people, Dolly Sen creates crip joy through absurd community projects, mountain rescues and anti-racist potato songs.
The world is getting harder and harder to live in, and disabled people are getting the sharpest end of it. I am doing my bit to fight for rights and justice, which is hard work, but I also know in a world that wants me to feel crushed and helpless, the best response is to create joy, Crip joy, Mad joy. Sometimes this is too hard if you are in the depths of depression or psychosis, but if there is any glimpse of light, I am going to take it. You’re not going to crush me, motherflippers. I know how to laugh at this absurd and ridiculous career of being human. Crip joy is discovering that lowered expectations of me as mad person is a freeing feeling. I can do what I want. I am here to impress no-one. Crip time is turning up late in the normal world but knowing you will arrive before equity and social justice. Crip joy is the act of becoming a nuisance for people who preferred you as a lesson. I am able to create my own world for my own entertainment and nourishment. Who wants to be on the ruined stage of real life reading a script that’s not even yours, but written on toilet paper by the shit of the fascistic elite?
One of things I do is create groups where other (normal) people can join me. It doesn’t take long for them to lose their normality. One thing I have set up is the nearly Irish Irish Band, peopled by humans that have Irish heritage, like myself. We sing songs about having claggy fannies in hot weather, or how we hit racists with potatoes.
The group that has being going on the longest is the Norfolk Mountain Rescue team. I am a Londoner living in Norfolk, the flattest county in England, but that doesn’t mean it should go without a Mountain Rescue Team. This team is comprised of the dog walkers I used to walk Scamp with, so we have a dog team too. Most Sundays, if it’s good weather, we doing training exercises I create, such as rescuing someone standing on a speed hump, or bushcraft of the lady garden variety. Other dog walkers walk in the opposite direction when they see us, for some unknown reason. Last week I made our first training video on my phone to test a mobile phone editing programme.
Here is the film!
I will be at some point asking you to sponsor us for £2 a month.
