Crip Liberation Collective (CLC)
CRIP Notes: Distinguished Oppression peels back the polished veneer of “inclusive” institutions to reveal the quiet violence beneath. Set between the sterile glow of a world-class library and the suffocating bureaucracy of a so-called caring office, this zine captures what it means to survive inside systems that congratulate themselves for diversity while quietly enforcing hierarchy.
Through haunting vignettes — Echoes in a World-Class Library and The Antagonistic Office — N.A. Johns exposes how ableism, racism, classism, and saviorism hide behind forms, policies, and polite smiles. Silence becomes its own character; care becomes control. Every page drips with the weight of institutional “help” that demands gratitude, performance, and compliance from those already forced to prove their worth.
Blending crip humor, institutional horror, and poetic critique, Distinguished Oppression is both a mirror and a warning. It invites readers to feel the tension between survival and resistance — to see how exclusion operates not only in obvious cruelty but in the language of professionalism, charity, and cleanliness.
Designed with large-print accessibility and minimal visuals, this zine continues the Crip Notes tradition of transforming lived experience into social commentary. It’s for anyone who has ever been told they’re “lucky to be included,” even as the room they were invited into quietly closes its doors behind them.
Crip Liberation Collective (CLC)
CRIP Notes: Distinguished Oppression peels back the polished veneer of “inclusive” institutions to reveal the quiet violence beneath. Set between the sterile glow of a world-class library and the suffocating bureaucracy of a so-called caring office, this zine captures what it means to survive inside systems that congratulate themselves for diversity while quietly enforcing hierarchy.
Through haunting vignettes — Echoes in a World-Class Library and The Antagonistic Office — N.A. Johns exposes how ableism, racism, classism, and saviorism hide behind forms, policies, and polite smiles. Silence becomes its own character; care becomes control. Every page drips with the weight of institutional “help” that demands gratitude, performance, and compliance from those already forced to prove their worth.
Blending crip humor, institutional horror, and poetic critique, Distinguished Oppression is both a mirror and a warning. It invites readers to feel the tension between survival and resistance — to see how exclusion operates not only in obvious cruelty but in the language of professionalism, charity, and cleanliness.
Designed with large-print accessibility and minimal visuals, this zine continues the Crip Notes tradition of transforming lived experience into social commentary. It’s for anyone who has ever been told they’re “lucky to be included,” even as the room they were invited into quietly closes its doors behind them.
