kin • song: ode to disability ancestors was a performance ritual we created in response to the 1,900 people buried in unmarked graves at the Austin State Hospital Cemetery. Like the other 382 cemeteries currently or formerly associated with a U.S. psychiatric hospital, the Austin State Hospital Cemetery reinforces the idea that disabled people can (and should) be removed from their communities, forgotten in both life and death. Our project sought to imagine a different future for disabled people. Rather than positioning disability as an entry point into social and physical death, we approached disability as a birth into knowledge and relationships. Originally performed alongside dancers and puppets moving in silhouette, the resulting poem serves as a kind of bedtime story—the kind many disabled members of our ensemble wish we would have had when we first became disabled or came into disability consciousness. By taking the perspective of future disability ancestors, we now offer the performance as a form of crip doulaing; a support for difficult times and a celebration of the disability to come.