Open AccessComing to Claim Crip: Disidentification with/in Disability Studies
Author(s) -
Sami Schalk
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
disability studies quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2159-8371
pISSN - 1041-5718
DOI - 10.18061/dsq.v33i2.3705
Subject(s) - disability studies , queer , queer theory , scholarship , gender studies , human sexuality , sociology , field (mathematics) , identity (music) , identity politics , intersectionality , politics , diversity (politics) , identification (biology) , sexual identity , race (biology) , inclusion (mineral) , social psychology , psychology , aesthetics , anthropology , political science , philosophy , botany , mathematics , pure mathematics , law , biology
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