Cripping it

Disability through a Crip/Queer lens.

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Towards a Crip Methodology for Critical Disability Studies

Towards a Crip Methodology for Critical Disability Studies

Please join the Transdisciplinary Disability Studies Reading Group for an event on Friday, May 12th at noon. We will review and comment on a new, unpublished paper by Louise Hickman and David Serlin, Towards a Crip Methodology for Critical Disability Studies, with Yelena Gluzman as conversant. If you plan to attend, please email Cassandra Hartblay or Louise Hickman for a copy of the draft to…

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Call for Contributions to Crip Magazine No02

Please find this call for contributions from Eva Egermann, who is currently based at UC Berkeley for a research project. Crip Magazine began in 2012 as a self-published art-zine and collection of materials on crip issues, art, culture and representation contradicting categories of normal/abnormal. The first number featured various articles and interviews as on radical crip movements, an anarchist…

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Submission Opportunity: Indexing Performance Works

I have been kindly invited by the Emergency INDEX team, a group of collaborators working to index performances on an annual basis, to expand the presence of disability and related themes into the Index’s repertoire of documented performances. As a…

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Cripistemologies poster: “Lobster Girl” by Sunaura Taylor

Image courtesy of Sunaura Taylor, “Lobster Girl”, oil paint on digital print on paper, 5.5′ x 3.5′…

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Language and (D/deaf) Culture

(NB: During this blog post, I shall use both little/big D/deaf to respect each culture. Although I’m familiar with these concepts, however I don’t feel comfortable with the politics surrounding this)      

I’ll start this post with the review on the back…

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When my phone goes off on full volume in class, but I don't notice

And everyone else looks at me like

Then I try to understand what’s going on like

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This has happened to me countless times, maybe if I have student next years... it going to be 10x worst! Oh my. 

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1920s

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Watch the Sins 2009 online, and why.

Sins Invalid, An Unashamed Claim to Beauty in the Face of Invisibility.

Sins Invalidis one of my…

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“Anthropology is well known for its capacious and ever-expanding framework for understanding “human nature.” Why then has anthropology as a discipline been relatively re­luctant to embrace the study of disability as another aspect of its romance with and professional curiosity...

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Conversation: What About the Superhumans? Part 2.

Summer 2012, there are two buzz words in circulation, independently and in conjunction with one…

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Conversation: What About the Superhuman? Part 1

Conversation: What About the Superhuman? Part 1

Conversation: What About the Superhuman? Part 1

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old wheelchair

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Queer ASL Cover of Gotye’s “Somebody I Used to Know”

Click here to see the Crash Pad article about the video.

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“When it comes to sexuality, there is also the fact that we (meaning both queer people and people with disabilities) have sex in non-normative ways. Queer sexuality rejects the idea of heteronormative sex. While many people with disabilities do have heterosexual sex, it is often far from normative. When your body cannot function in this way, you find other ways of having sex. There is often more communication involved, and more creativity. And there is also the idea of oppression–disabled sexuality is erased in mainstream culture, as is queer sexuality, although to a lesser extent. Society assumes people with disabilities to be asexual, to not have sexual desires or needs. And so, embracing one’s sexuality and enacting it, when that sexuality is the very thing you are oppressed over, can be an extremely empowering thing. I think Margaret Cho put it very well when she said “If you are hated for who you like to fuck, you’re gonna kick up your heels and fuck.” And if you are told that you cannot fuck, or that nobody will want to fuck you, then when you do fuck, it an incredibly affirming thing.”

Disability and Queerness by Captain Chaos (via disabledpeoplearesexy)

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Feminism is worthless without intersectionality and inclusion.

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