Crip Spaces For and With Disabled Filipinos: Mapping Bodies, Lands and Disasters in the Philippines

ABSTRACT In disaster settings, disabled people are often framed as passive recipients of aid, to be integrated into pre‐existing response mechanisms. This paper challenges that framing by centring disabled bodyminds and the crip‐for‐crip strategies that sustain survival amidst chronic disaster. It foregrounds the relational practices of resistance, care and world‐making that disabled communities enact in the face of climate crisis. Workshops and interviews across disaster‐affected sites in the Philippines provide rich, embodied accounts of how disabled bodyminds register and respond to environmental change. Through these narratives, we trace the relational geographies of pain, care and survival and the ways in which disabled communities enact justice through mutual aid, access intimacy and community‐led adaptation. Finally, we reflect on the implications of this work for reimagining disaster governance, arguing that disabled bodyminds offer vital knowledge for surviving and resisting in a world increasingly shaped by climate catastrophe.