#crip studies

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

[curiousemwanders]

However, with chronic pain, which has no obvious external cause and becomes a part of the phenomenological self, when others react with disgust, it is as though they are reacting with disgust towards the individual with chronic pain. This is especially the case when combined with wider ableist social structures that reinforce the ‘better dead than disabled’ message underlying ‘sympathetic’ statements along the lines of ‘I wouldn’t be able to cope if I were like you’.

Using Pain, Living with Pain, in Feminist Review By Emma Sheppard

[curiousemwanders]

Rather than bend disabled bodies and minds to meet the clock, crip time bends the clock to meet disabled bodies and minds

Kafer, A. (2013). Feminist, Queer, Crip. Indiana University Press.

[24000-kerching-necktoll]

I found an excerpt of "feminist queer crip" that I printed out for a uni paper and I am rereading it and aaaaaaaaaahhhh I'm losing my mind in the best way possible

[curiousemwanders]

neoliberalism provides an ecosystem for the nourishment of ableism, which we can define as neoliberal-abelism. We are all expected to overcome economic downturn and respond to austerity through adhering to abelism’s ideals, its narrow conceptions of personhood, its arrogance and its propensity to buddy up with other fascistic ideologies

Page 981, Goodley, D., Lawthom, R. and Runswick-Cole, K., (2014). Dis/ability and austerity: beyond work and slow death. Disability & Society, 29(6), pp. 980–984. DOI 10.1080/09687599.2014.920125

[aloenopal]

“[the] paradigm of recovery ... organizes the anarchic material of crisis into a linear narrative of healing” -Jina Kim “People of the Apokalis": Spatial Disability and the Bhopal Disaster”

[joanofdirt]

"how do you throw a brick through the window of a bank if you can't get out of bed?" - johanna hedva