"Your so-called boss may own the clock that taunts you from the wall. But friends," // "the future is for crips—"
musings on severance & disability | full citation list below the cut
Sources by image:
Rhys Dreeszen Bowman and Leah T. Dudak, "Cripping Conferences: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Disability in Academia", 2025. https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2025/cripping-conferences/
Severance, 1x01 and 1x02.
Severance, 2x03.
Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant, Health Communism, 2022.
Severance, 2x07.
Bassam Sidiki, "Severances: Memory as Disability in Late Capitalism", 2022. https://www.chicagoreview.org/severances-memory-as-disability-in-late-capitalism/
Alison Kafer, Feminist Queer Crip, 2013, p. 54.
Severance, 1x02.
Bassam Sidiki, ibid.
Severance, 1x06, 1x01, 2x01, 1x05.
Eli Clare, Brilliant Imperfection, 2017, p. 160.
Severance, 1x08, 1x06, 2x02.
Alison Kafer, "Crip Temporalities in Pandemic Times" in the plenary panel for the 2021 Society of Disability Studies, 2021. https://read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlantic-quarterly/article-abstract/120/2/415/173312/After-Crip-Crip-Afters
Severance, 1x02.
Bassam Sidiki, ibid.
Severance, 1x04, 1x02.
Ellen Samuels, "Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time", 2017. https://dsq-sds.org/index.php/dsq/article/view/5824/4684
Severance, 1x03, 1x04.
Severance, 2x03.
Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant, ibid.
Severance 2x05, 2x06.
Rhys Dreezen Bowman and Leah T. Dudak, ibid.
Severance, 2x06, 2x07, 2x09.
Ellen Samuels, ibid.
Severance, 2x09.
Severance, 2x02, 2x03, 2x09.
Micha Frazer-Carroll, Review of "Health Communism" by Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant, 2024. doi.org/10.1080/02690055.2024.2316428
Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant, Health Communism, p. 61.
Caption of post is in reference to Ricken's quote as cited in Severance 1x08 "Your so-called boss may own the clock that taunts you from the wall. But, my friends, the hour is yours." as well as Alison Kafer's widely cited opening chapter, "Time for Disability Studies and a Future for Crips" (x).
Shoutout to the Severance Wiki Transcripts for the bulk of the dialogue snippets used here (all snippets with time stamps).
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[Image ID: Digital fanart of Paul Strickland from 9-1-1: Lone Star, signed in the bottom left with a 'Dot [flower symbol] s' signature. Paul is wearing his firefighter turnouts; in this rendering, the tri-striped glow strips on the turnouts are in the trans flag colours. The heavy jacket of the uniform is unbuttoned, and Paul is holding one of the flaps in his hand, revealing his navy blue t-shirt and uniform suspenders beneath, as well as a golden heart (drawn in the anatomical style) which glows in the centre of his chest. Its glow radiates out, illuminating Paul's face and torso. /end ID.]
Madi & Silver | (ID in alt; description also available below the cut)
[Image ID: Digital drawing of John Silver and Madi from Black Sails. The drawing, done in a simplistic line style with minimal shading, in magenta lines against an orange-yellow background, depicts Silver and Madi, from the waist up, stood facing each other. Madi's hair is long and cascades down her back; she wears an off-shoulder blouse, large earrings, a beaded necklace, bracelets and rings. Silver's hair is in a low bun and he wears a simple long sleeved shirt. In the drawing, Silver looks at Madi fondly as Madi, with a soft smile, lifts Silver's chin with her fingertips. /end ID]
"This is something I have often thought about: the fact of knowing and not knowing, the sense of the body as self and as something altogether different; as you but also as something liable to attack you, to harbour things that mean you harm. It is frightening, to be in one sense wholly inextricable from your body and yet not know what’s happening inside it."
Person of Interest 3x16 "/" (Root Path) +
Severance 1x01 "The Good News About Hell"
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[Image ID: 15 stills from the TV Series "Person of Interest" and "Severance". Most of the stills are overlaid with text, representing dialogue related to those particular stills. The stills and dialogue are as follows:
Image 1: The diner scene from Person of Interest 3x17 “/” (Root Path), filtered with a warm black and white tone. Root, played by Amy Acker, smiles as she says, “Normally people ask more questions.”
Image 2: In the black and white filtered diner scene from Person of Interest, Cyrus Wells, played by Yul Vazquez, sits across from Root. He doesn’t look at her as he says, “Such as?”
Image 3: Root thinks, pursing her lips as she lists examples. “Who are you?”
Image 4: In a blue-toned diner scene from Severance 1x01 “Good News About Hell”, Mark Scout, portrayed by Adam Scott, says, “Okay, who the fuck are you?”
Image 5: In the Person of Interest diner scene, Root continues to list possible questions. Another example: “What do you want with me?”
Image 6: In Severance, Mark asks the person across from him in the blue-toned diner, “Are you following me?”
Image 7: Root finishes her list of possible questions with, “What the hell is going on?”
Image 8: In the scene from Severance, Mark looks around as he responds to someone sitting with him at the diner table. He says, “...that’s not plausible.”
Image 9: Mark continues talking as his eyes dart around the diner. He says, ”Everyone in my department is—”
Image 10: In the Person of Interest diner scene, Cyrus looks up at Root. He says, “Que será será.”
Image 11: In the diner scene from Severance, Petey, portrayed by an older, greyer Yul Vasquez, sits across from Mark. He considers Mark pensively.
Image 12: In Person of Interest, Cyrus tells Root, ”Whatever will be, will be.”
Image 13: In Severance, Mark holds a card open, addressed to him. He holds it open to the letter inside from Petey. Overlaid text highlights certain lines from Petey, which say, “If you don’t want to know what’s going on down there, I won’t force it. But if you do—”
Image 14: In the Person of Interest diner scene, Cyrus raises his eyebrows as he looks at Root. He says, “But if it makes you feel any better, what the hell is going on?”
Image 15: In the scene from Severance, Mark looks at the backside of the card, which has an address written on it: “499 Half Loop Rd.”
"A normal body, as Lennard Davis has demonstrated, is a theoretical premise from which all bodies must, by definition, fall short. The body is up against an abstraction with which it cannot compete because the norm is an idealized quantitative and qualitative measure that is divorced from (rather than derived from) the observation of bodies, which are inherently variable. This false model of an ideal body also fails to consider the contingencies of bodies functioning within specific social and historical contexts.
It is, in other words, a body divorced of time and space—a thoroughly artificial affair."
—David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder, Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse (University of Michigan Press, 2000, page 7)
Alguna vez han sentido tanto, tan fuerte, que se preguntan ¿De dónde sale tanto amor?
Supongo que todos tenemos (o tendremos) alguien a quien esperaríamos una vida entera si nos lo pidiera... Él, para mí es, el astronauta que habita todos y cada uno de los cráteres de la Luna. 🌝
