Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival

​Authors Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire argue that we live in a world broken by design: a web of systems that debilitate and destroy through racist and ableist infrastructural neglect, socioeconomic abandonment, and ecological negligence. While dominant responses to these forms of breakage often conceal and intensify harm, Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Struggles for Collective Survival (2026, University of Minnesota Press) refuses to rehabilitate this inhospitable world and instead imagines what might be built in its place. 

​By charting a politics of solidarity capable of cultivating worlds where we sustain each other instead of the systems that harm us, the authors trace how relations of care, access, and justice are fostered amid social, ecological, and political collapse. By showing that care for disabled life is inseparable from care for the infrastructures, environments, and human and more-than-human entanglements that sustain us, the book asks what it means to be accountable not only to one another but also to the fragile material relations that make collective life possible. 

​Join us for an exciting conversation between authors Kelly Fritsch (Carleton University) and Anne McGuire (University of Toronto), and discussants Louise Hickman (Cambridge University) and Nancy Salem (Cambridge University).

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