“Expansive, full of beauty and surprises.” —Kenny Fries, award-winning author of In the Province of the Gods and curator of the Disability Poetics video series 

“If every place on the map is indeed disabled, I offer a deep bow to the complex and divine cartography of this book.” —Sonya Renee Taylor, author of The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self Love

Cover rituals for climate change: a crip struggle for ecojustice. flowering maguey painting with a raven, candles, milagros, phases of the moon, a nest, and sacred heart are perched on the flower stalks

Rituals for Climate Change

A Crip Struggle for Ecojustice

Rituals for Climate Change: A Crip Struggle for Ecojustice expands on and complicates who is seen as an environmentalist and what being in relationship with the land can look like.

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"Generously and deliciously, Naomi Ortiz takes readers into the folds of life in the Sonoran Desert border zones, and shares ‘a wobbly set of Crip hacks.’ Ortiz uses humor, passion, and ceremony to invite us into their world." Review by Petra Kuppers

Naomi
Ortiz

A Poet, Writer, and Visual Artist whose work invites people to imagine how self-care, disability justice, climate action, and other relational practices create a collective future. They are a highly acclaimed speaker and facilitator with a leadership style emphasizing inclusion and spiritual growth. Ortiz is the author of Rituals for Climate Change: A Crip Struggle for Ecojustice, Sustaining Spirit: Self-Care for Social Justice, the co-editor of the anthology, Every Place on the Map is Disabled: Poems and Essays.

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