Crips for eSims for Gaza w/ Jane Shi & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (01/22/26)

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🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Jane Shi and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha about their work organizing Crips for eSims for Gaza, a mutual aid project which has facilitated keeping countless people connected in Gaza over the past years of genocide and heightened blockade, and about lessons and legacies from Alice Wong, who cofounded the project with them. Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/crips4esims Support Crips for eSims for Gaza here: https://chuffed.org/project/crips-for-esims-for-gaza And more on Crips for eSims here: https://cripsforesimsforgaza.org/ https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2023/12/25/crips-for-esims-for-gaza/ After many, many requests we're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Show links: Get Health Communism here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523 Find Jules' latest book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781804291603 Outro by Time Wharp: timewharp.bandcamp.com/track/tezeta

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome to the Dap Channel.
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1:03.5	at Death Panel underscore. I'm Beatrice Alder Bolton, and I'm honored to be joined today by my two
1:08.7	guests, Leah, Lakshmi Pyebsna Samarang Singhha and Jane Shee,
1:13.3	joining me to talk about a project called Cripps for Esims for Gaza.
1:17.1	Leah is a disabled writer, editor, and disability and transformative justice cultural worker.
1:21.5	They currently organize with Crips for Esims for Gaza, and they are the author or co-editor of 11 books,
1:27.2	including The Future is Disabled, Prophecies, Love Notes, and Morning Gaza, and they are the author or co-editor of 11 books, including The Future is
1:28.5	Disabled, Prophecies, Love Notes and Morning Songs, Carework, Dreaming Disability Justice,
1:34.1	Tonguebreaker, and Beyond Survival, Stories and Strategies from the Transformative Justice
1:38.8	Movement co-edited with the Jaris Dixon, and the forthcoming, The Way Disabled People
1:43.7	Love Each Other, which will be out in March 2026 from Arsenal Pulp Press. A Lambda and Gene Cordova Award winner and five-time publishing triangle shortlistee and is currently building the Stacey Park, Milburn, Liberation Arts Presidency. Leah, welcome to the death panel. Thank you. I'm really glad to be here. And Jane is a poet, writer, editor, and organizer.
2:03.4	Her debut collection, Echolalia, Echolalia, published by Brick Books, was shortlisted for the Raymond Suster Award.
2:10.2	She co-founded the Mask Block, Masks for East Van, and currently organizes Crips for Easts for Gaza, a Disability Justice Mutual Aid Collective.
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