Disability Studies Quarterly · 2013 · 235 citations · 1 references
Social SciencesGender StudiesSexuality StudiesDisabilityQueer StudiesQueer TheoryCrip TheoryDisability IdentityDisability Studies TheoryQueer Feminist TheoryQueer Of Color CritiqueStandpoint TheoryBlack Queer SubjectivityCoalitional PoliticsCrip Queer TheoryCrip SpaceCritical Disability StudiesQueer Political TheoryResearcher Reflexivity
The paper traces a non‑disabled scholar’s experience with disability studies, theorizes the personal, political, and academic utility of identifying with crip via disidentification, and proposes that cross‑identification can foster coalitional theory between disability studies and fields such as race/ethnic and queer/sexuality studies. It employs disidentification and crip theory to theorize the utility of identifying with crip as a nondisabled, fat, black, queer, female academic. The crip identification informs the researcher’s scholarship and suggests that disidentification across minoritarian subjects can create coalitional theory and politics between disability studies and other fields, particularly race/ethnic and queer/sexuality studies. Keywords: crip, identity, queer theory, race.
This creative-critical paper combines creative non-fiction and theory to trace one non-disabled scholar’s personal experience with disability studies as a field and a community. Using disidentification and crip theory, this paper theorizes the personal, political, and academic utility of identifying with crip as a nondisabled, fat, black, queer, female academic. This crip identification then undergirds and informs the researcher’s scholarship in and relationship to disability studies as a field. Specifically referencing the Society for Disability Studies dance as a potential space of cross-identification, this paper suggests that disidentification among/across/between minoritarian subjects allows for coalitional theory and politics between disability studies and other fields, particularly race/ethnic and queer/sexuality studies. Keywords: crip, identity, queer theory, race
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