Index

abandonment: forms defined, 16–19, 20, 140–41, 170–71, 200, 304n2, 304n3. See also broken-by-design structures; infrastructures
Abbas, Jihan, 165
able-bodiedness, 95–96, 98–99, 107, 113–14, 282
ableism: accessibility costs of, 203; building access, 129–30; disruption of, 81; of factory system, 60; fashion norms, 63–64; life valuations, 266; public transit systems, 133–35; university culture, 151, 154–55. See also eugenics
abolition, 7, 20–21, 23, 179, 274–78, 282–83, 306n11
Abolition and Disability Justice Collective (ADJC), 306n11
Abolition Imagination Cards, 277–78
abundance, 32, 234
access: to capital, 272; doctrine of, 9; individualization of, 132–33; interdependencies of, 45, 233; as people-powered, 129–30, 137; student mental health services, 151; transit ramps, 133–34, 135–36, 205; UK vehicle study, 203; vaccine rationing, 196–98
Access-Centered Movement (California), 233
accessibility: adaptive clothing design, 78, 80–82; door-opening buttons, 129, 130–32; interdependent relations, 24–25, 129–30; mobility and, 24, 221–23; public infrastructure and, 216–17, 229–30; transit systems, 133–37, 199, 202–3, 205
accountability, 17, 163, 253–54
ActionAid Bangladesh, 71
activism: climate, 258–59; clothing and, 63–64; direct action, 190–92; disability, 28–29, 38, 226–28, 229–30, 233; fat bodies and, 63, 64; harm reduction and, 188–89; for home-care workers, 218–19; labor rights, 69–70, 74–75, 84–85; mad peers and, 181; public school system, 142–43, 144–45, 176; student encampments, 238–39, 240; suicide prevention and, 151–52, 153
adaptation, 267–68, 272–73, 286
adaptive clothing, 44, 62–63, 66–68, 78–82
addiction care. See drug users
Adler-Bolton, Beatrice, 58, 200–201, 242, 243
advertising, 49–51, 54, 59–60, 61–62, 63–64, 67
aesthetics, Japanese, 90–91
affective ties, 123, 124
afterlife, 27–28, 29, 266–67
agency, 20, 178, 296–97
Aggeles, Chris, 93–94, 98, 110
aging. See older adults
Ahmed, Sara, 231
airline industry, 218–19, 220–22
air pollution, 255, 256, 268–69, 271
AI technologies, 162, 163
Akhter, Taslima, 84–85
Alberta supervised consumption sites, 187
Albrecht, Glenn, 252
Aldous, Peter, 210
Alff, David, 15
alteration: afterlife, 27–28, 29, 266–67; disablement as, 77; forms of, 35, 77–78, 90–91, 298
American Psychiatric Association, 106
American Psychological Association, 252
American Society of Civil Engineers, 217
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA 1990), 202
Amsterdam public transit, 133–35, 136
anthropocentrism, 281
anthropomorphism, 258–60
antiabandonment, 37–38, 135, 290–91, 296–97
Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism, The (Horne), 2
apocalyptic ethos, 2, 6, 247–48, 281–82
Appalachia, 260–61, 269–70, 271
Appalachian Regional Hospital, 271
appropriation, 82
Arab Canadian Lawyers Association, 242
Arango, Tim, 306n1
architecture, 150, 151, 152, 173, 176–78
Architecture After the Asylum (Soomal), 173
Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting (Finland) (2019), 9–10, 248
Arctic territory, 9–10, 248, 249, 257
Arnott, Ted, 241
art and artists: on abolitionist futures, 277–78; canary metaphor, 263; cripping fashion design, 81–82; disability activism, 226–28; on imperfection, 81, 90–91; liberation practices, 49, 50; on mad asylums, 173; mutual aid network, 284; textile projects, 84
artificial insemination. See assisted reproduction
Ashulia industrial zone (Bangladesh), 69
assimilation, 65, 66, 78–79. See also visibility
assisted living residents, 209
assisted reproduction: bioessentialism in, 108–9; conceptions of disability in, 115; consumer choice, 102–3, 111; sperm banks, 93–94, 98, 99, 101–3, 111, 119–20; trait selection in, 99–100, 109
assistive devices/technology: DIY stories, 10, 231; independence and, 219, 220, 221; interdependent relations, 218, 226–28; mobility and, 205, 220, 221; more-than-human relations, 25, 210–11; power outages and, 207–8, 226, 233
asylums, mad, 170–73
Atlantic, The, 1–2
Augustine, Myriad, 284
austerity: ethos, 132–33, 139, 140; government policy and, viii, 11–12, 216, 304n2, 304n3; manufactured crises and, 147–48. See also neoliberalism
Australian bush fires, 212, 273
autism, criminalization of, 303n1
Autonomous Design Group (UK), 49, 50
Avery, Ellis, 205, 234

Bahen, John, 304n5
Bahen Centre for Information Technology (U of T), 150–51, 152, 176–78, 304n6
Balian, Raffi, 189
Baltimore Sun, 268
Bangladesh Garment Sramik Samhati (Workers Solidarity), 85
Bangladesh garment workers, 69–70, 83–86
Baraitser, Lisa, 281
Baril, Alexandre, 165, 167
Barry, Ben, 52, 79, 81–82
Bay Area (Calif), 233–34
Bazant, Micah, 277–78
beauty ideals, 49
Beaverton, The, 11–12
Begum, Asima (mother), and Aakhi (daughter), 84–85
Benjamin, Ruha, 37, 129–30
Ben-Moshe, Liat, 165, 175
Berger, James, 281
Berkeley (California), 233
Berne, Patty, 264, 265
Bezos, Jeff, 249
Bhopal, India, 75
biodiversity, 249–50, 273
biological determinism, 94–95, 98, 103, 109, 112. See also genetics
biomedicalization, 103
biopolitics, 29, 214
biosociality, 103–4, 111, 118
bipolar disorder, 119
bird populations, 263–64
Black, John B., 101
black lung, 271
Black Lung Association, 269–70
Black people: on abolition, 277–78; climate change inequities, 257–58; on norms of dress, 64–66; pandemic rationing, 194–95; policing deaths, 305n9; public schools and, 168; racial profiling, 64; restoration practices, 182; women as caregivers, 224–25
Black studies, 42–43
blindness, 8
Blyth, Mark, 256
bodily ideal, 49, 53–54, 57–58, 62–63, 64, 303n2. See also able-bodiedness; ableism
Body, Undone, A (Crosby), 278–79
Bos, Kristen, 275
Böttger, Johann Friedrich, 90
Boyce, Carly, 181
Boyer, Dominic, 216
Brand, Dionne, 12–13
Brandon, Elissaveta M., 177
Brazilian wetland, 273
breakage: forms defined, 5, 7–8, 13–14, 24–25, 37; as repair, 21, 22; tensions of, 276–77. See also brokenness; maintenance; repair
Brilliant Imperfection (Clare), 42
British Columbia, 33, 186, 191, 266
broken-by-design structures: alternatives, 278; heterogeneity of, 23–24; infrastructural neglect and, 14–16, 132, 133; modernization and, 16; overview, 4, 6–7, 10–12; privatization and, 16–17, 147–48; public school system, 11–12, 167–69; public transit systems, 133–36. See also abandonment; infrastructures
brokenness: agency within, 20; as analytic framework, 14, 38–41; atmosphere and ubiquity of, vii–viii, 1–3, 43, 241; concept defined, 2, 4, 43; on cripping, 5, 13, 21, 23; disabled people on, 8–9; as methodology, ix–x, 41–42; transformative potential of, 5, 13–14. See also broken-by-design structures
“broken sociality,” 241
Brown, Kendall, 207
Brown Divest Coalition (Brown University), 245
Bunge, Raymond, 100, 101
Buriganga River (Dhaka), 71–72, 292
Butler, Judith, 29
Butler-Jones, David, 197

Calgary Flames team, 196, 198
California wildfires, 206–9, 213–14, 215, 265–66, 306n1, 306n2
CAMH. See Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Camp Fire case (California), 213–14, 215
Camp Wish, 115, 120
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), 94, 110
Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA), 186
Canaries (artist network), 284
canary metaphor, 262–64, 266
canary–minor relations, 266–69
Canguilhem, Georges, 55
capacitation, 60–61, 66–68, 133, 181–83, 229–31, 268–69
capitalism: climate casualties, 263–65, 272; crises speculation, 9–10, 272; ecosystem impacts, 9–10, 248–49, 260–61; global inequalities, 73–76; industrialization and, 27–28, 57–60, 62, 200; labor protections, 200; racial forms of, 5–6, 54, 57, 85–86; surplus populations, 58–59, 74–76; surveillance model of, 161. See also climate change; neoliberalism; resource extraction
Capital Program (NYC transit), 202–3
carbon culture, 250
carbon monoxide gas testing, 262–63, 268
carceral logic, viii, 164–67, 170, 171–73, 185, 186, 186–87
care and caregiving: caretaking relations, 278–79; palliative models, 279, 280–81; social relations of, 235, 294, 295; working conditions, 218–19, 224–25
Care Can’t Wait (rally), 219, 224, 225
care work: community care practices, 181–83, 189–92, 230–31, 233–34, 243–44; crip doulaing, 122–23, 124; crip maintenance practices as, 223–25; interdependence in, 225–26, 235; maintenance and repair as, 36–37
Carleton University, 130–32
Carrington, Damian, 263–64
Carver, Louise, 249, 250
categorization, psychiatric, 105–6, 156
Cax, Mama, 61
CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), 94, 110
CBC News, 178
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) (TO): press conference at, 139, 141, 156; Queen Street site, 170, 171–73; stigmatization of patient, 303n1
Centre for Innovation in Campus Mental Health, 160–61
Cerezo-Mota, Ruth, 2
Chancel, Lucas, 254
Chandler, Eliza, 229
chemical illness, 262–63
chemical pollution, 27–28, 71, 255, 260, 262–63, 292
Chicago L train, 135–37
childlessness, 100, 115, 118–19, 120
choice rhetoric, 113–14, 239, 241, 254
Chomsky, Noam, 148
chronic illness, 262–64, 284
CIDNY v. MTA (2019), 202
Clare, Eli, 8, 13, 42, 64, 91–92, 275, 293
Clarke, Catherine (student), 178
class action lawsuits, 202
class inequality, 208–9, 264
climate activism, 258–59
climate change: disabled kin-making, 47, 251, 283–87; dystopianism, 247–48; eco-anxiety and, 251–54, 256; energy infrastructure, 206–7, 208–9, 212–13, 214–16; extreme weather, 208–9, 212–13, 251–52; global policy agreements, 248, 258–59; inequalities of, 253–54; market speculation and, 9–10, 248–49, 257, 272; politics of vulnerability, 265–66; social murder and, 210–11, 213–14; solidarity, 217–18, 257–58; tipping points, 255–56. See also fossil fuel industry
climate science, 255, 256
clothing design. See fashion industry
CN Rail, 33
coal mining industry, 58, 262–63, 264, 266–67, 268–71
Coastal GasLink pipeline, 33
Coburn, Veldon, 21, 22
cochlear implants, 231
Cockburn, Bruce, 193
cognitive behavioral therapy (iCBT), 162–63
collaboration, vii, viii–x, 81–82, 84–85
Collected Schizophrenias, The (Wang), 115, 118
collective memory, 20–21, 22, 84–85
collective survival, 29–30, 31
collectivism: agency of, 296–97; community care practices, 181–83, 189–92, 230–31, 233–34, 243–44; disabled kin and, 7, 290–91; garment workers, 74–75; with more-than-humans, 182; public health measures, 189–91, 238, 241, 304n2; responsibility and, 133, 134–35, 137. See also disabled kin-making
Collins, Angela, 93–94, 98, 104, 107, 108–9, 110, 111
colonialism. See settler colonialism
colonization, 249, 261, 289
commercialization, 99, 101–3
commodification, 99, 155, 161–64
Connell, Tula, 70
Conrad, Peter, 111
conservation paradigm, wilderness, 279–80
Conservative government (ON), 11–12, 139–40, 145, 147–48, 303n1, 304n2
Conservative Party of Canada, 185, 186
consumerism, 35–36, 51
COP28 (climate conference), 258–59
Copernicus Climate Change Service (EU), 255
Cormick, Hanna, 262, 263
corporate manslaughter, 213–14
Corwin, Julia E., 204
Coulthard, Glen Sean, 33
Covid-19 pandemic, 1, 150–51, 237–38, 239, 240–41, 284–86
Cowen, Deborah, 2, 16, 42, 203, 281–82
criminalization, 66, 108, 189, 192, 277–78, 303n1. See also carceral logic; involuntary treatment
crip doulaing, 122–23
crip maintenance practices: caretaking and, 122–23, 124, 278–79; defined, 25–26, 36–37, 218, 223–24, 295; kinship and, 129, 169; palliation framework, 282, 284–85
cripping: defined, 5, 13, 21, 23; adaptive fashion practices, 53, 78–82; kinship, 169–70; politics of futurity, 5, 289–90; technoscience, 129, 231
Cripping Masculinity: Designing Fashion Utopias (exhibit), 79, 81–82
crip socks, 124
crip wisdom, 234–36, 283–84, 286
critical infrastructure, 208–9, 304n2
Crosby, Christina, 278–79, 297
crowdfunding, health care, 11–12
crowdsourcing, 233, 292
Cryle, Peter, 59, 62
cryptopreservation, 99, 101–2
Cubacub, Sky, 63, 78–81, 82
cultural studies, 43
culture wars, 237, 240–41
customization: clothing, 62, 63–64, 160; mental health services, 154, 159–61; of wheelchairs, 219
cyborg relations, 228

Daniels, Cynthia R., 103
Danylevich, Theodora, 207
Dark, Kimberly, 51, 67
Davidson, Paul, 304n6
deaf community, 103, 231
Dear Elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss (Khúc), 173–74
Death Panel (podcast), 243
deaths: defining/typology of, 17–18, 19, 20; from drug toxicity, 185, 186–87, 191; hospice care and, 282–83; industrial disasters, 74–75, 84–86; mental health distress, 305n9, 306n11, 306n12; pandemics, 195–96; power outages, 199, 209, 210–11; racism and, 17, 197, 305n9, 306n11; warfare and, 243. See also social murder
debilitation: defined, 19; from labor practices, 58, 71–72, 73–76; of land and ecologies, 27–28, 72–73, 292; power outages, 207; public infrastructure, 201, 293; war and, 243–45. See also disablement
decay. See infrastructures; maintenance; repair
decolonization, 27–28
Deep Space Mind 215 (DMS 215) (Philadelphia), 181–82
degeneracy discourse, 56–57, 97, 100
dehumanization, 18, 19, 63–64
deindustrialization, 260, 261
De La Rosa v. MTA (2019), 202
Del Real, Jose A., 306n1
deregulation, 17, 214–15
Desai, Abdurraheem, 241–42
deviance, 185–86, 303n2
Dhaka (Bangladesh) factory, 69
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). See DSM-IV
diagnostic categories. See DSM-IV
difference, human, 43, 113, 126, 165, 275, 297–98
digital technologies, 161, 163
dimensional paradigm, 105–6
direct action, 190–92, 244–45
disability: activism, 63–64; biosocial factors, 118; as collective, 133–35; as disruption, 4–5, 13–14; embodiments of, 81–82; fashion mainstreaming of, 61–62, 68, 79; futurity and, 99, 122, 289–90; industrialization and, 57–59, 71; as inheritance, 108–9, 122, 123–24; preservation, 4–5, 126–27, 223–24, 274–75; as relational, 25, 94–97, 109–10, 114–15, 292–93; as risk spectrum, 108–9, 110–11, 112, 113–14; as social construction, 109; specter of, 113, 114, 121, 125–26, 274; as undocumented, 207
disability culture: on brokenness, 8–9; care relations, 274–75, 291; hacking and, 81–82; lineages and, 120–21, 122, 123–25, 294–96; preservation of, 4–5, 126–27, 223–24, 274–75; survival wisdom, 283–86
disability justice, 232–33; abolition and, 306n11; antiabandonment politics, 37–38; care work, 122–23; centering of, 4–5; decolonization and, 27–28; fashion industry and, 75–76; relationality and, 95–96; solidarity and, 291–92; transnationalism, 243–45
Disability Justice Culture Club (California), 233
disability rights organizations, 202
disability studies, 95–96, 165, 193–94
Disability Visibility (media project), 226–28
“disabled ecologies,” 27–28, 262
disabled kin-making: asylum patients and, 171–73; care responsibility, 23–24, 278–79; defined, 7, 14, 25–26, 37–38, 169, 289–90; more-than-human relations in, 25–26, 182, 262; as political practice, 290–97; preservation of, 126–27; shared lineages, 44, 97, 120–21, 122, 123–25, 294–96; survival wisdom, 283–84. See also specific practices
disabled mutual aid, 229–30, 233–36, 244–45, 284–85, 295
disabled people: adaptation wisdom, 285–87; as canaries in coal mine, 264, 283–84; as cautionary tales, 274; climate change inequities, 257–58; commodification of, 58–59; community making, 124–25; fashion and, 49, 50, 61–62; pandemic rationing, 196–98; power outages and, 206–7; on recognizing hard limits, 285–86; survival stories, 211
disablement: defined, 19; environmental destruction, 260, 261; global events, 237; mining labor and, 58, 269–70; mobility and, 204, 220–22; by public infrastructure decay, 217–18; war and, 46–47, 243–45
disciplinary norms, 63–65
discrimination, 194–98, 202–3, 206–7, 265. See also specific forms
disease: class relations and, 269–70; environmental toxicity and, 254–55, 262–63; etiologies and metrics, 105–6; risk surveillance, 111–12, 113–14. See also chronic illness; mental illness
Dispatches from Disabled Country (Frazee), 193
disposability: consumption and, 51, 72, 75, 303n3; e-waste export, 74; laboring bodies, 57–58, 75–76, 268–69; logic of, 251, 293; multispecies casualties, 263–64; of populations, 57–58, 97, 186, 188, 245. See also fast-fashion production
diversity, advertising, 49–50, 51, 59–60, 61–62, 63, 67
DIY (do-it-yourself) repair, 10, 11–12, 80–81, 189–91, 231–32
Dodd, Zoë, 189
Doe v. Xytex Corp (2017), 113–14
Dolmage, Jay T., 164
Donor 9623: case and lawsuit, 93–94, 97, 98, 99, 102, 113–14; criminalization of, 108; genetic risk surveillance, 107, 110, 117; spectral risk discourse, 109–10, 126
door-opening buttons, 129, 130–31, 132–33
Dormor, Catherine, 242
Drug User Liberation Front (DULF), 190–92
drug users, 185, 186–87, 188–89, 190–92, 304n2
DSM-IV, 105–6, 112, 118, 119–20, 251, 252, 253. See also individual categories
Dunson, Jimmy, 230
dystopianism, 247, 256

eco-anxiety, 251–54, 256, 286–87
ecosystems: alterations to, 77, 254–55; financialization, 249–50; palliation of, 279–80; sacrifice zones, 248, 249–50; tipping points, 255–56. See also climate change; pollution
education system (ON), 140, 142–45, 148–49. See also public schools; universities
electrical infrastructure. See power grids
Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), 208–9
elementary schools. See public schools
Elementary Teachers of Toronto, 142
elevators: accessibility at home, 24–25, 26; social isolation, 223; subway station access, 199, 203–4, 205, 234
embodiment, 49–50, 81–82, 95, 221–22, 228
emergency management, 211, 272–73
energy infrastructure. See power grids
Engels, Friedrich, 58, 200
environment: alteration from pollution, 77, 254–55; catastrophes and disablement, 260–61; crises speculation, 9–10; sustainability branding, 72–73. See also climate change; ecosystems
environmental activism, 35, 36, 71–72, 258–59
environmental justice, 28–29, 250, 264–65, 274, 279–80
environmental racism, 264, 273–74
epigenetics, 105, 111, 116
ethics/ethical relations, 33–34, 116–17, 163, 279, 280–81
Ettinger, Mordecai Cohen, 264
eugenics: ableism of, 108; adaptability ideal, 267–68; consumer choice model, 102–3; genetic determinism, 107–9; health care rationing, 195–98; as human optimization, 113; legacy in genetics, 94–95, 99; logic of, 244–45; pedigree charts, 119–20; physicians and, 100; racial purity discourse, 99–100; risk management, 110; as social movement, 56–57; of sperm donation, 99–101, 117, 119–20
European Union, 255
Evans, Grand Chief Ron, 197
Extrapolations (television show), 247
extreme weather, 208–9, 212–13, 251–52, 254, 257

Facebook posts, 220, 221
far right protests, 237
fashion industry: adaptive clothing marketing, 49, 50, 52; ad campaigns, 49–51; alteration practices, 77, 78, 81–82; dehumanization by, 63–64; disabled designers, 63, 78–82; disabled models, 61–62; ethical alternatives, 83–84; social currency, 65, 67; sustainability initiatives, 72–73, 78, 80. See also fast-fashion production; garment industry
fast-fashion production: alternatives to, 78–80, 81; clothing accessibility, 67–68; disposability ethos, 51, 72, 74, 76, 303n3; environmental and labor practices, 57–58, 68–69, 73–74, 292; factory disasters, 69, 70, 71, 77, 83, 303n4; fashion hacking vs., 81–83; violence of, 84–86; working conditions, 70–72, 73. See also garment industry
Fat Rose (California), 233
fat shaming, 63, 64
Fazeli, Taraneh, 284
Ferris, Landyn (student), 306n12
Figueroa, Engracia, 218–19, 220, 224–25, 292, 293
financialization, 249–50
Financial Post, 9–10
Finley, Allysia, 251, 252
Finneran, Kathryn Jane, 260–61
fires. See garment industry; wildfires
Fireweed Collective, 181
First Nations and Inuit, 197
Fix Our Schools campaign (Ontario), 142–43, 144–45, 176
flooding, 213, 272
flourishing. See collectivism
Ford, Doug, 148, 303n1, 304n2
fossil fuel industry, 248, 253–54, 255, 256, 258–59, 261
Foster, Jordan, 61
Foster-Frau, Silvia, 209
Foucault, Michel, 65
fragmentation, 42
Fragments of the City (McFarlane), 42
fray, pedagogy of, 243
Frazee, Catherine, 46, 193–96, 198, 221, 270
Freedom Convoy, viii, 237–38, 239, 240–41
free-market ethos, 215–16
Friedner, Michele Ilana, 231
Fritsch, Kelly: building-access experiences, 129, 130–31; on cripping, 5; public transit experiences, 133–36; referenced, 169
Fukui, Elliott, 181
Functional Fashions (brand), 66
functionalism, 8, 35. See also alteration
Future is Disabled, The (Piepzna-Samarasinha), 232–33
futures/futurism, 5, 99, 122, 226, 232–33, 281, 289–90. See also disability culture

Galton, Francis, 56
Gap (company), 49–51, 54, 59–60, 63–64, 69, 303n1
garment industry: adaptive clothing and, 49, 50, 61, 67–68; deaths, 84–86; disposability ethos, 72, 74, 303n3; factory fires and disasters, 69, 70, 71, 77, 83, 303n4; health impacts, 70–72; labor conditions, 54, 70–71, 83–84; solidarity with, 44, 53; survivor narratives, 83, 84–85; sustainability initiatives, 72–73, 78, 80; worker-owned cooperatives, 83–84, 303n4; worker protests, 74–75
Gay, Roxane, 64
Gaza, 243–45
gender nonconformity, 42, 64, 78
genealogy, family, 119–20
genetic risk: disability spectrum, 96–97; of mental illness, 94, 104
genetics: biosociality in, 103–4, 111; environmental interaction, 104–5; epigenetics, 105, 111, 116; fitness discourse, 98–99; human variability, 105–6; inheritance and, 107–9; medical monitoring, 110, 111; risk discourses, 94–95
genocide and war, 237, 239, 243–45
genomics, 104
Gertler, Meric, 154
Ghebreyesus, Tedros Adhanom, 257
Gibson, Julia D., 279
Gidwani, Vinay, 204
Gilmore, Ruth Wilson, 16–17, 42
Giroux, Henry A., 147
Global News, 1
Global South: waste disposal burden, 72, 73–74
global warming. See climate change
GoFundMe, 11
Golden, Janet, 103
Gonzales, Julius, 210
Good Morning America, 10
Goodson, Malaysia, 199, 202, 203, 211
Gordon, Avery F., 17
Graham, Stephen, 145
Great Lakes, 27–28
Greene, Daniel, 9
greenhouse gas emissions, 253–54, 256
grief, 179–80, 253
Guardian, 273
Guterres, António, 256
Guthman, Julie, 105, 111, 113, 126

Habtom, Sefanit, 194
hacking, 129
Hacking, Ian, 53, 56
Halberstam, Jack, 275
Haldane, John Scott, 268
Haley, Tobin LeBlanc, 140
Hall, Kim Q., 256
Hall, Stuart, 43
Hande, Mary Jean, 19
Hand in Hand (nonprofit), 218–19
Hanson, Elizabeth, 93–94, 98, 104, 107, 108–9, 110, 111
Haraway, Donna, 25, 123
harm-reduction practices: drug users and, 186–90; overview, 45–46, 297; palliative care model, 282–83; regulated drug supply, 186–87, 190–92; school infrastructure and, 148–49, 176, 178–79
Harper-Madison, Natasha, 211
Hayes, Kelly, 296
healing, 90–91, 179–80, 181–82
health: collectivism, 189–91, 238, 241, 304n2; privatization and privacy, 163; self-governance of, 157–58; as weapon of war, 243–44. See also mental health and services
Health Canada, 163, 197
health care, public: access inequities, 10–12, 196, 207, 220; community care models, 189–92; involuntary treatment, 185, 186–87; rationing, 196–98; working conditions, 224–25. See also harm-reduction practices; mental health and services
health insurance industry, 10–11, 12, 220
health management: metrics of, 106–7; responsibilization, 111–12, 114–15; sperm banks and, 101–2
health promotion, 305n7
Health Revolutionary Unity Movement, 189
heat waves, 265, 270, 272
Henke, Christopher R., 15
heredity, politics of, 56–57, 98, 99
heritability. See inheritance
Hernández, Arelis R., 209
Hershey, Laura, 124
Higgins, Karrie, 24, 26, 221–23, 224
Hilfiger, Tommy (CEO), 49, 54, 67, 72–73
Hirji, Zahra, 210
HIV/AIDS epidemic, 101
Holdren, Nate, 201, 241
Home Depot, 10
Homeowner’s Guide to Retrofitting (FEMA), 272
H1N1 pandemic, 193, 195–96, 197, 198
hope, 276
Horne, Gerald, 2
Horsfall, Debbie, 279–80
hospice care, 282–83
hospitalization, 17, 197
housing and homelessness, 265, 282–83
Houston Chronicle, 210
Howe, Cymene, 15
Hubrig, Adam, 211
human rights law, NYC, 202
Hurricane Katrina, 193, 195, 265–66
Hyman, Steven E., 105

impairment, 195, 207
imperfection, 42, 81, 90–91, 92
imperialism, 248–49, 289
Imtiaz, Shahin (student), 153
incarceration, 17–18, 209, 282–83. See also carceral logic
In Catastrophic Times (Stengers), 276
inclusion and inclusivity: advertising and, 49–50, 51, 59–60, 61–62, 63, 67; complicity and, 74; disability and, 43–44; fashion industry, 49–50, 52–53, 61–62; normativity and, 43–44, 60–61; public transit and, 203; racial capitalism and, 6
independence, 219, 220–21
Indian residential school system, 21, 168
Indigenous people: climate change inequities, 257–58; custodial deaths, 17–18; deaths by policing, 305n9; hospitalization and deaths, 17–18, 197; land defenders and restoration, 32–34; pandemic rationing, 194–95; residential school system, 21, 168
Indigenous sovereignty, 27, 33
individualism, 5, 59–61, 102–3
individualization, 9, 146, 154–55, 157–58, 251. See also neoliberalism; risk discourses
industrial capitalism, 27–28, 57–60, 62, 200. See also pollution
industrial disasters, 74–75, 83, 84–86
infrastructures: antiabandonment forms, 293, 294, 296–97; climate change and, 251–52; defined, 14, 15–16; inequalities and, 16, 211; normalcy and repair, 55; privatization of, 16–17; underfunding of, 140–41, 144–45. See also abandonment; individual forms
inheritance: biology and, 98, 99, 108–9; as biosocial, 118; disability, 44, 108–9, 122, 123–24; disability culture, 294–96; family heirlooms, 44, 89–90, 91, 92; genetics and, 107–9, 110, 115–16, 122; intergenerational memory, 295. See also genetics
institutional containment: involuntary treatment, 185, 186–87; mad asylums, 170–73; sensory room and death, 306n12; university mental wellness imperatives, 154–55
interdependency: as abundance vs. scarcity, 234; accessibility as, 129–30, 137; cyborg relations, 228; disability-led mutual aid, 229–30, 233–36, 244–45, 284–85; labor relations and, 26; material infrastructure and, 14, 133, 134–35, 137; nonhuman relations and, 25–26, 266–67; public infrastructure and relations of, 217–18; solidarity and, 291–92. See also mutual aid
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 256
International Energy Agency (IEA), 212
International Trade Union Confederation, 69–70
Interrupting Criminalization, 277–78
involuntary treatment, 185, 186–87
isolation, social, 24, 26, 223

Jablensky, Assen, 105
Jackson, Emma, 238
Jackson, Liz, 63, 82
Jackson, Steven J., 31–32
Jaffee, Laura, 27
Jama, Sarah, 242
Jamil, Sharif, 71–72
Jaworski, Sophia, 267, 268
John, Kelsey, 27
Johnson, Harriet McBryde, 63, 124
Journal of Urology, 101

Kaba, Mariame, 277–78, 296
Kafer, Alison, 99, 103, 123, 228–29, 274, 280, 289–90
Kamloops Indian Residential School (BC), 21
Kanji, Azeezah, 32
kantha quilts, 84–85, 86, 295
Karow, Armond M., 101
keffiyeh, 237, 239, 240, 241–42, 243, 244
Khúc, Mimi, 154–55, 173–74, 175, 178
kinship, 37–38, 123, 129–30, 135, 242. See also disabled kin-making
kintsugi, 90–91
Klein, Naomi, 248, 257

labor conditions: asylum inmates unpaid labor, 171–73; neoliberal policies and, 200–201; of teachers, 144, 147; transit workers, 136–37
labor movement, 200
labor value: abandonment and, 269–70; canary–minor relations, 268–69
LaDuke, Winona, 16, 203
Laing, June, 218–19, 224, 225
Lamm, Nomy, 264
land back movement, 32
leaky ceilings, 142–44, 148–49, 176
Lecce, Stephen, 139, 141, 146, 156
Lee, Erica Violet, 2, 37
Lee, Stephanie M., 210
legal action. See Xytex Corporation
Levins Morales, Aurora, 175–76
Lewis, Talila A., 4
Liberal government (ON), 145
Liboiron, Max, 254
life itself, 255, 266–67
Lin, Yi, 75
lineages, 44, 97, 120–21, 122, 123–25, 294–96
Little Grand Rapids First Nations, 212
Long, Rebecca Eli, 261, 268, 274
Los Angeles Walks (project), 229–30
loss, 277–78
Lungs (poster), 258–59
Luongo, Nicole Marie, 185–86
Lupton, Deborah, 158

Mabel I. (patient), 172
Maclean’s (magazine), 150
mad studies, 165, 171, 172
Mail Order Association of America (US), 62
maiming. See debilitation; disablement
maintenance: crip practices of, 218; defined, 23, 34–35, 36, 145, 174, 175; DIY practices, 10, 231; politics of, 147–48, 204–5; public infrastructure, 176, 203–4; social murder by neglect, 210–11, 213–14, 216–17; stopgap measures, 152, 176–78. See also crip maintenance practices; individual infrastructures
Majid, Dania, 242
Make It Possible (MIP) initiative, 72–73. See also Hilfiger, Tommy
Malatino, Hil, 38
Mallick, Heather, 1
Mamo, Laura, 103
Manhattan Seventh Avenue Station (NYC), 199, 201, 203
Manitoba, 17, 197
Manitoba Legislature, 21, 22
Mann, Michael E., 256
Mansfield, Becky, 105, 111, 113, 126
Mardis, Robert, 207–8
marginalized communities, 195–96, 197, 198, 209, 245
Martin, Trayvon, 66
Martínez, Francisco, 36
Marx, Karl, 57–58
masculinity, 79, 81–82, 103
mask blocs, 238, 243–45, 291
Mask Oakland community group, 234
material infrastructure, 14, 16, 133, 134–35, 137
Mattern, Shannon, 1, 14, 15–16, 23, 36, 214, 293
McCallum, Mary Jane Logan, 17, 21
McClelland, Alexander, 189
McFarlane, Colin, 42
McGuire, Anne, 106
McKinsey (consultancy firm), 147–48
McRuer, Robert, 98, 282
Medical Baseline Program, PG&E’s, 207
medicalization, 94–95, 110, 111–12, 252–53
medical masks, 237–39, 240–41, 242, 243, 244, 285
medical surveillance, 110, 111–12, 113–14, 116–17, 122
Medicare (US), 220
medicine: privatization and, 113; statistical norm and, 55–56, 303n2
Melamed, Jodi, 6
Melkumova-Reynolds, Jana, 280–81
memorialization, 84–85
Mental Health Act (1990) (ON), 167
mental health and services: commodification of, 161–64; community care practices, 181–83; involuntary treatment, 185, 186–87; peer support, 180–81; policing and, 305n9; public schools and policies, 139, 140, 146; self-diagnostic tools, 154, 155–58; spectral continuum, 154, 155–58, 160–61, 174; stepped care model, 154, 157, 159–61
Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC), 252–53
mental illness: criminalization of, 303n1; dimensional approach, 105–6; eco-anxiety defined as, 252; experiences of, 116, 118; genetic risk, 94, 98, 104; heritability, 104, 115–16, 118, 119, 122; individualization of, 117–18; motherhood decisions and, 120–21; social reproduction of, 119. See also psychiatry
Mercado, Jillian, 61
Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) (NYC), 199, 201, 202–4, 205, 217
Michalko, Rod, 8, 53, 54
Milbern, Stacey Park: on disability lineages, 44, 97, 122–23, 124, 295; disabled people and crisis treatment, 264, 265–66, 295; on power outages and mutual aid, 207, 233–34
Mingus, Mia, 217–18, 234, 235, 243
Minister of Natural Resources, Canadian, 9–10
Ministry of Education, Ontario, 139–40, 141, 144, 147, 148, 156, 304n5
Ministry of Health, Ontario, 146
Mitchell, Audra, 250
mobility, 204–5, 267–68, 285–86. See also public transit systems
mobility devices: crip maintenance of, 221–22, 224–25; (in)accessibility, 204–5, 221–23; wheelchair repair delays, 219–20
modernity/modernization, 16, 261
Mohr, Sebastian, 99
Monaghan, Jeffrey, 169
monuments, 20–21, 22, 33
Moore, Kieran, 241
Moraes, Luka, 273
more-than-human relations, 24–26, 181–82, 210–11, 221, 292–93
Morneau Shepell/LifeWorks, 162
Mortimer-Sandilands, Catriona, 23–24
Moss, Elisabeth, 50, 54, 59, 60–61
motherhood, 118–19, 120–21, 199
Movement Memos (podcast), 180
MTA (Metropolitan Transit Authority) (NYC), 199, 201, 202–4, 205, 217
Mukherjee, Alok, 165, 305n9
Murphy, M., 27–28, 266
Musafiri, Guy Olivier (student), 151
Musk, Elon, 249
mutual aid: community sidewalks project, 229–30; disability-led differences, 232–34, 244–45, 284–85; drug users and, 188, 189–92; fundraising campaigns, 230; interspecies forms, 182, 279–80; limits of, 231–32, 235–36, 285–86; mask blocs, 238, 243–45, 291. See also solidarity

National Indigenous Peoples Day, 32
National Post, 185
National Science and Media Museum (UK), 268
National Seating & Mobility (NSM), 219–20
Native Youth Sexual Health Network, 27
natural disasters. See extreme weather
naturalization, 51, 53–54
natural resources. See resource extraction
Nature, 104
Ndopu, Eddie, 63–64, 65
neoliberalism: defined, 5, 11–12; education system and, 147–48; flexible bodies, 59, 270, 272; health risk individualization, 114–15; inclusion and, 67; lack of labor protections, 200–201; mental health policies, 154, 155, 162–64; public infrastructures and, 213–15, 216
neoliberal subjectivity, 59–61, 67, 154–55, 157–58, 175
Nesbitt, Philippa, 52, 79, 81–82
neurodivergence, 95, 96
neuroscience, 104–5
New Democratic Party (BC), 186
news media, 1, 3, 251, 252
New York City: mask blocs, 244–45; Office of City Comptroller, 204; public transportation system, 199, 201, 202–4, 205, 217
New York Times, 93, 119, 268, 306n1
Niña Desparpajo (la Niña) (doll), 89–90, 91, 92
nonhuman relations, 26–28, 263–64, 266–67, 273
Noone, Cat, 68
normalcy: adaptive clothing and, 66–67; in advertising, 49–51, 54, 63–64; collective resistance, 85–86; contingency of, 53–54, 74; disciplinary practices and, 63, 64–65; economic privilege and, 51; inclusion and, 43–44; passing, 65, 66; as statistical norm, 55–56
normalization, 31–32, 83, 84–85, 254, 255, 303n2
normativity: beauty ideals, 49; factory production, 57–58; inclusivity and, 60–61; sperm banks and, 103; wellness discourse and, 154–55
No Sweat (UK), 83
Notes for the Waiting Room (Canaries), 284
Nothing About Us Without Us, 153
Numotion, 219–20
nursing homes, 195, 209, 210–11

Oakland (California), 264
O’Brien Davis, Jane, 21
older adults, 206–7, 209, 210
O’Leary, Meghann Elizabeth, 180
Oliver, Joe, 9–10
Omar, Ilhan, 13
Ontario: education infrastructure, 142–43; keffiyeh ban by legislature, 241–42; mental health care services, 139–40; public school system, 11–12, 145–46, 167–68; school health hazards, 304n4; 2008 pandemic plan, 198
Ontario Hospital for the Insane. See Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC), 165–66
opioid toxicity deaths, 185, 186–87, 191. See also drug users
Oporajeo (cooperative), 83–84, 303n4
orientalism, 90, 91
Orsini, Michael, 159
Ortiz, Naomi, 287
Osborne, Natalie, 211, 275–76, 278
Our Lady of Disability Visibility (Scharnke), 226–27
overcoming narratives, 272–73, 286

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) (US), 206–8, 213–14, 233, 265, 306n1
Palante (newspaper), 189
Palestine, 19, 237, 238–39, 240, 241–42
palliation framework, 279–81, 282–83, 297
Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless (PEACH) (TO), 282–83
Pancoast, William, 100
Pandya, Jiya S., 75, 76–77
Paradise (California), 213–14
parent advocacy, 142–43, 144
parenthood/parenting, 97, 115–16, 121
Paris Agreement, 248
passing, 65, 66
Pastor, Carl, 189
pathologization, 154, 186, 188, 251, 253, 261
Patsavas, Alyson, 207
Pauingassi First Nations, 212
Paul, Frank, 18
Pearson Airport (TO), 221–22
pedagogy of unwellness, 174
Penn, Ivan, 306n1
People’s Circle for Palestine, 237, 238–39, 240, 241–42
Perry, Adele, 17
Perzanowski, Aaron, 35, 36
Pettinicchio, David, 61
PFAS (forever chemicals), 255
Pflug-Back, Kelly Rose, 249
PG&E. See Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E)
Phoenix, Arizona, 251
physical infrastructure. See public schools
physicians, 99–100
Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi, 123–24, 232–33, 283, 284–85
Pierce, Joseph M., 32
Pitts-Taylor, Victoria, 107
planet earth, 258–60, 279, 281
Poilievre, Pierre, 185, 186, 188
policing: of garment workers, 70; homelessness, 31–32; Indigenous deaths and, 17–18, 305n9; mask bans and, 242; mental health crises and, 166–67, 305n9, 306n11; regulated drug use, 191–92
Pollard, Lewis, 268
pollution: alteration from, 77, 254–55; chemical, 27–28, 77, 255, 260, 262–63, 274, 292; garment industry, 54, 68; greenhouse gas emissions, 253–54, 256; microplastics, 254–55; space race and, 249; textile industry, 71–72, 73–74, 80
Pompeo, Mike, 9, 10, 248
popular culture, 247, 251, 252, 256
porcelain, 90–92
postsecondary education system (ON), 167–68. See also individual institutions
poverty, 9, 261, 265–66, 269–70
Povinelli, Elizabeth A., 17–18, 19–20
power grids, 206–7, 208–9, 212–13, 214–16, 217–18
power outages, 207–8, 210–11, 212–13, 228, 233–34
#PowerToLive (collective) (California), 233
precarity, 193–94, 195
preservation, 90, 92, 126–27, 223–24, 274–75
Presidential and Provostial Task Force on Student Mental Health: Final Report and Recommendations (U of T) (2019), 153–54
Preston, Anna G., 165
privacy policies, 163–64
privatization, 16–17, 113–14, 147–48, 155, 162–64, 219–20, 249
privilege, 6, 51
productivity, 57–58
Project ImPerfect (Yi), 79, 81
prolonged grief disorder, 253
protests, 74–75, 150–51, 159, 237, 238–39, 240, 242. See also activism
Provincial Lunatic Asylum. See Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, 104
psychiatric institutions, 170, 171–73
psychiatry, 94, 104, 105–6, 116–17, 156, 306n11. See also DSM-IV
Puar, Jasbir K., 19, 59, 60
public education system, 11–12, 140, 141, 142–43
public health, 189–91, 238, 241, 304n2
public infrastructure, 199, 216–17, 229–30, 292, 293, 306n1
public safety, 191–92, 206–7
public schools: mental health care, 156; physical disrepair and, 11–12, 142–45, 148–49, 168–69, 176, 178–79
public transit systems, 130, 131, 133–37, 199, 201, 202–4, 205, 217

Quebec and public health, 190
Queen Elizabeth statue (Manitoba), 21
Queen Street Mental Health Centre (TO). See Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Queen Victoria statue (Manitoba), 21
queerness. See 2SLGBTQ+ people
quilt projects, memorial, 84–85

racial capitalism, 5–6, 54, 57, 85–86
racism: biological determinism and, 108, 109; care work and, 224–25; disability narratives and, 75; dress-norms profiling, 66; environmental, 264, 273–74; hospitalization deaths, 17, 197; policing mental health, 305n9, 306n11; risk individualization and, 306n11; scientific, 56–57, 97, 99–100
Raditz, Vanessa, 265
railway infrastructure, 33–34
ramps, transit, 133–34, 135–36, 205
Rana Plaza collapse (Bangladesh), 69, 70, 71, 74–75, 83, 84–86
Razack, Sherene H., 17–18
Reaume, Geoffrey, 171, 172–73
Rebirth Garments (project), 78–81
reform movements, 78–79
Regehr, Cheryl, 154
regulation, 17, 186–87, 190–92, 214–15
rehabilitation: dress norms, 66–67; drug use and, 187–88; involuntary treatment, 185, 186–87; moral therapeutism, 171–73; normalization and, 113–14; risk interventions, 112
Rehabilitation Act (1973) (US), 202
Remembrance of Patients Past (Reaume), 172–73
repair: breakage as, 14, 33; defined, 23, 31–32, 36, 37; financialization of ecological, 249–50; as framework, 33, 34–35; harm-led approaches, 31–32, 249–50; right to, 35, 36
Repair: The Impulse to Restore in a Fragile World (Spelman), 31
reproduction, human, 56–57, 94–95, 98, 99–101, 119–20. See also eugenics
reproductive technologies. See assisted reproduction
resilience: canary–minor testing, 268, 270; discourse of, 12, 146, 158–59; individualization of, 12; interdependence and, 217–18; myths of, 261; overcoming narratives, 272–73
resource accumulation, 4, 6
resource extraction: Appalachia region, 260–61; climate-change speculation, 9–10, 248–49; finitude of lifeworlds, 277; by gas companies, 215–16; sacrifice zones, 248, 249, 260–61; solidarity blockades, 33–34. See also fossil fuel industry
responsibilization, 12, 146, 155, 185–86, 272–73. See also wellness discourses
restoration, 31–32, 249–50. See also repair
Right to Maim, The (Puar), 19
Right to Repair, The: Reclaiming the Things We Own (Perzanowski), 35
risk discourses: biosocial factors, 118; carceral logic, 164–65, 167; collectivization and, 126–27, 134–35, 137; disability surveillance, 116–18; genetics and, 94–95; health governance, 96–97, 107, 109–12; individualization of, 109–12, 125, 306n11; population valuations and, 196; public safety discrimination, 194–98, 206–7
risk spectrum, 44, 109–10, 112, 252–53
risk surveillance, 116–18, 162–64, 177
Robinson, Cedric J., 6, 57
Romero, Tina Miller, 10
Roy, Arundhati, 276
Rudin Center for Transportation and Policy Management (NYU) study, 203–4
Ryerson, Egerton, 21, 22, 33

sacrifice zones, 248, 249
Salon, 119
Saltman, Kenneth J., 147
Sandoval, Catherine, 214
sanism, 151
Scharnke, Maria, 226–27
schizophrenia, 94, 103–4, 105–10, 112, 115–18, 122
Schizophrenia Working Group, 104
Schmitt, Donald, 150
school boards, 143–44, 146, 304n5. See also public education system
School Mental Health Ontario (SMH-ON), 146, 304n5
Scientific American, 100
scientific racism, 56–57, 97, 99–100. See also eugenics
Scribe, Megan, 194
segregation, 168–69, 170–73, 306n12
self-governance, 110, 154–55, 157–58, 175, 252–53, 305n7
settler colonialism: apocalypse of, 2, 6; disablement and, 16, 17–19; land and, 6, 27, 32, 261; monuments, 20–21, 22, 33; public health deaths, 197; school systems and, 168–69
Sharpe, Christina, 42–43
Shein (brand), 67–68
Sherman, Jerome, 100, 101
Shotwell, Alexis, 65
Shuichi (artist), 90–91
Shumitra (factory survivor), 85
#ShutDownCanada, 33, 34
Sibley, David, 215
sidewalks project, 229–30
Simcoe Hall protest (U of T), 150–51, 159
Simmons, Kristen, 194
Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake, 33–34
Sims, Benjamin, 15
Sinclair, Brian, 17
Singh, Julietta, 37
Sinker, Dan, 1
Sins Invalid, 232
Small, Raia, 235
Smith, John, 142
Smith, Sarah, 162–63
Smriti Katha O Kotha (quilt exhibit), 85, 86
Snobelen, John, 147
social abandonment, 195–96, 197, 198, 211, 245
social deaths, 195, 207–8, 218–19. See also social murder
social determinants of health, 146, 243–44
social inequalities, 16, 211, 253–54, 257
social infrastructure, 14, 16, 211, 229–32
social isolation, 265
social justice, 232–36. See also mutual aid
social media, 10, 21, 22, 220, 222
social movements, 4–5, 28–29, 42, 76–77, 82, 232–36. See also individual movements
social murder, 199, 200–201, 210–11, 213–14, 216
social problems, 8–9, 17
social work, 306n11
socioeconomic abandonment: austerity and, 304n2, 304n3; climate change and, 257; inequities of, 293; normalization of, 211; opioid crisis and, 188; power grid failures, 206–7, 208–9, 212–13, 214–16; of transit systems, 205
solastalgia, 252. See also eco-anxiety
solidarity: caregiving relations and, 224; collective survival and, 217–18, 235, 257–58; drug users and, 189–92; fashion hacking and, 81–82; with land defenders, 33–34; mask blocs, 238, 243–54, 291; symbols of, 240–41; worker cooperatives, 83–84. See also mutual aid; individual social movements
Solidarity Center (US) (organization), 70, 74, 75
Solomon, Rob, 11
Somerville, Siobhan, 56
Sonaran Desert (Tuscan) or (US), 260
Soomal, Sajdeep, 173
South Bronx Drug Coalition, 189
space race, 249
Spade, Dean, 231, 257
spectral politics, 156, 174, 266–67, 268–69
spectrum, disability, 94–97, 111–14, 125
Spelman, Elizabeth V., 31, 34–35
sperm banks, 93–94, 98, 99, 101–3, 111, 119–20. See also Donor 9623
standardization, 57–58, 62, 159
Stanford, Rashni, 182
Stanley, Eric A., 7
statistical science, 55–56, 303n2
Statistics Canada, 187
status quo, 13–14. See also breakage
Stengers, Isabelle, 276
Stephens, Elizabeth, 59, 62
Stepped Care Solutions (corporation), 154, 157, 160–61
stigma, 165, 166, 167, 186
Stoler, Ann Laura, 56
St. Pierre, Joshua, 281
streetcars, 133–35
Structures of Indifference (McCallum & Perry), 17
Stuart (camper), 120–22
student activism, 150–51, 153, 159, 177–78, 238–39
student mental health crisis: deaths, 306n12; digital technologies and, 161, 162–64; involuntary leave policies, 165–66; normalization of, 177; pedagogy of unwellness, 174; self-help services, 305n7; stepped care model, 159–61; wellness imperative, 154–55, 157–58, 175
Stuelke, Patricia, 23, 31, 34, 35
subjectivity, 59–60, 113, 118
subway systems, 135–37, 199, 202, 234
suicide: campus mental health crisis, 149, 150–51, 153; involuntary confinement and, 167; prevention barriers, 151–52, 177, 178; risk and peer support, 180–81; stigma, 165, 166
Supernant, Kisha, 21
surveillance: disease and risk, 111–12, 113–14; genetic risk and, 97, 121; late-stage capitalism, 161; schizophrenia risk, 108, 116–18, 122; witnessed drug use and, 187
sweatshops. See garment industry

taboo, 151
Tam, Lou, 280
Tangled Art + Disability (TO), 79
Taylor, Sunaura, 27, 260, 262, 274
technical infrastructures, 36
technoscience, 8–9, 13, 129, 247–48, 268. See also sperm banks
Teen Vogue (magazine), 61
TELUS, 162, 163
temporality, 82, 280–81, 285
Texas (ERCOT) power grid, 214–16
Texas winter storm, 208–9, 210, 211
textile artists, 84–85, 243
textile industry pollution, 71–72, 73–74, 80
textile symbolism, 237
therapeutism: campus mental health crises, 154; digital technologies, 162–64; eco-anxiety and, 253; in mad asylums, 171–73; in public education system, 145–46; as self-governance, 305n7
Thompson, Lisa, 148
Thrasher, Steven W., 245
Thrift, Nigel, 145
tipping points, 255–57
Todd, Zoe, 25
Tombs, Steve, 200
Tommy Hilfiger (company): adaptive clothing line, 49, 50, 61, 66–67, 73, 74; ad campaign, 59–60, 61; environmental and labor practices, 73–74; factory fire, 69. See also Hilfiger, Tommy
Toronto: harm-reduction workers in, 189–90; Indigenous Affairs Office, 32; Police Service Board, 165, 166–67; Trinity Bellwoods park encampment, 31–32
Toronto District School Board (TDSB), 143–44, 145, 304n4
Toronto Metropolitan University, 22
Toronto Star, 1, 12–13, 98, 107, 142, 304n2
Tory, John, 32
toxicity. See opioid toxicity deaths; pollution
transformation, 5. See also alteration; breakage
transit deserts, 202, 203–4
transit systems, public, 130, 131, 133–37, 199, 202–3, 205
transnational corporations. See fast-fashion production
trauma: epigenetics and, 105; intergenerational, 117, 261; palliation framework and, 280; transit workers, 136–37
trees, 91; kinship with, 182
Trejos, Eduardo, 194, 195–98, 244
Trenton High School (ON), 306n12
Trinity Bellwoods park encampment, 31–32
Tuck, Eve, 14
Turcotte, Hannah (student), 178
Turtle Island, 16
2SLGBTQ+ people: affective ties, 7, 123, 124; community care, 180, 181, 182, 234, 281; cripping fashion design, 78, 79, 81, 82; discrimination, 265; on nonconforming bodies, 42, 64

UN Climate Change Conference (Dubai) COP28, 258–59
Understanding and Coping with Eco-Anxiety (MHCC), 252–53
Undoing Suicidism (Baril), 165
Unilever (company), 49, 50, 54, 59–60, 61
Union Carbide disaster, 75
Unist’ot’en land defenders, 33
United Airlines, 218–19
United Kingdom, vehicle access, 203
United Nations Climate Action, 253
universities: private funding of, 304n5, 304n6; student activism, 151, 153, 159; student encampments, 238–39, 240, 241–42, 245; student mental health crisis, 149, 150–51, 154–55
Universities Canada, 304n6
university building accessibility, 129, 130–32, 133
University-Mandated Leave of Absence Policy (UNLAP) (U of T), 151, 165, 166
University of Toronto: accessibility of buildings, 129, 131; building maintenance, 304n6; Campus Safety and emergency services, 166–67; campus suicides, 149; Mental Health Continuum, 157; mental health-related policies, 151, 165–67; mental health task force, 153–54, 162; stepped care model, 154, 155–58, 159–61, 305n7; student activism, 151, 153, 159; student encampment, 238–39, 240, 241–42; student mental health crisis, 149, 150–51
UNLAP. See University-Mandated Leave of Absence Policy
UN Secretary General, 256
urbanism, 42
urban planning, 203–4
Ureta, Sebastián, 15, 16
US Bureau of Home Economics, 62
US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), 272
US Food and Drug Administration, 163
US Secretary of State, 9
US Senate Finance Committee, 209
US Special Committee on Aging, 209
utilitarianism, 196–98
utilities infrastructure. See power grids
utopianism, 76–77, 79, 81–82, 232–33

vaccines, 196, 197, 238
Valentine, Desiree, 102–3, 108, 109, 122
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU), 190–91
Vancouver Sun, 196
van der Meulen, Emily, 169
Velho, Raquel, 15, 16
ventilators, 194, 207, 210–11, 226–27
Vesey, Andrew, 206
Vessel structure (New York city), 177
VIA Rail (Canada), 33
Vierkant, Artie, 58, 242, 243
violence: climate change and, 264–65; clothing norms and, 64, 65; of normalcy, 52–53; racial ideologies and, 57, 66; of structural indifference, 16–19, 200–201. See also policing
visibility, 78–79, 80–81, 226–28
vitality, value of, 267–68
Voronka, Jijian, 165
vulnerability, 194, 195–96, 197, 198, 228, 245, 265–66

Walia, Harsha, 179–80
Wallace-Wells, David, 254, 256
Wall Street Journal, 251
Wang, Esmé Weijun, 44, 97, 115–19, 120–21, 122
Wang, K. (niece), 122
war and war industry, 46–47, 237, 239, 243–45, 260
Washington Post, 251
waste. See pollution
wastelands, 37–38
water pollution, 71–72, 255, 260
Watts Belser, Julia, 285–86
welfare state, 147–48, 162, 304n2, 304n3. See also abandonment
wellness discourses, 141, 149, 158, 164
wellness imperative, 12, 154–55, 157–58, 175, 185–86
Werner, Chelsea, 61
Wet’suwet’en First Nation, 33, 34
wheelchair users: airline industry and, 218–19, 220–23; crip maintenance, 221–22, 224–25; crip socks lineage, 124; customization needs, 219, 221; “dressing normal,” 63–64; on hard limits, 285–86; power outages, 211; private repair market, 219–20; on transit system access, 133–37, 202–3; vulnerability, 194, 195
white supremacy, 6, 56–57, 64, 99, 238
wildfires, 206–9, 212, 213–15, 255, 265–66, 306n1, 306n2
Williams, Raymond, 43
Winston O. (patient), 172–73
Witherington, Roy, 101
Withers, AJ, 32
Wolinsky, Emily, 210–11
Women’s Earth Alliance, 27
Wong, Alice, 192, 226–28, 283, 293–94
workers’ rights, international, 69–70
Workman, Joseph, 170–71
World Bank, 71
World Health Organization, 257
worldmaking, 277–78. See also afterlife
World Mental Health Day, 139, 141
World Meteorological Organization, 255
World Wildlife Federation, 258–59, 273
Worthington, Bill, 269–70
Wray, Britt, 253, 257
Wright, Meghan (student), 153
Wright, Natalie E., 66

Xytex Corporation, 44, 93–94, 97, 98, 102, 110

Yates, Alli, 234
Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life (Wong), 226, 228
Yi, Chun-shan (Sandie), 79, 81, 295
YOLO (you only live once), 250
Young Lords Party, 189
Yu, Tiffany, 63

Zimmerman, George, 66
Ziv, Maayan, 221, 222, 223, 224
Zubi, Beisan, 242
Zuboff, Shoshana, 161

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