Creative writing can be defined as care work. In defining care work, I must first understand what it is not. Care work cannot be self-help and cannot support a western capitalistic “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” mentality. As a white cisgendered heterosexual American male, I must make sure that my creative writing is informed by disability justice principles and the goals of my project be led by relatability and inclusivity. Creative writing is more exploration than elixir but when the project connects to a community through storytelling, catharsis can be possible. In recognizing my privilege, I might aim to amplify the legacy of seminal disability justice work like Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha’s “Care Work” rather than to appropriate it. I must express in the most certain of terms that my understanding of my own experiences as a disabled bodymind are insufficient without the scholarship, experience, and theoretical framework that was established through the labor and sacrifice of people more marginalized than me.