Refer to Laura Hershey's "Crip Commentary" on the internet.
I have heard the term "crip" used between friends of mine who have disabilities, usually in a sardonic fashion, often to claim ownership of the term as a descriptor when they are poking fun at one another.
Judith Kelleher
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> From: Patsy Wakefield <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 2003/09/08 Mon PM 10:53:51 GMT+12:00
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> Subject: Re: inquiry on term "crip theory"
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> Hi Jim
>
> I've never heard the term used here in NZ.
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> Bye Patsy
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> Is the term "crip theory" used to communicate anything distinct from the
> term "disability theory"? (I rarely encounter the term "crip", and when
> I do it is nearly always in the form of the term "supercrip", not "crip"
> alone. I just happened to be reading through eighteen pages of
> political statements by 22 people of many if not all ages, genders,
> sexual orientations and ethnicities running for election to the board of
> the largest disabled rights organisation in the eastern US, and the term
> "crip" appears in none of them. Once in a great while I hear "crip
> culture" or "crip community" being used not to refer to established
> things, but emerging things which are really little more than things we
> hope to build. (Fleischer & Zames in their history of the DR movement
> book argue the the development sequence of large numbers of PWDs may be
> different than for other groups, with organising around rights having to
> precede organising community or culture.)
>
> Are there situations in which the label "crip theory" describes
> something being presented more accurately than "disability theory"? I
> mean obviously, not in a case where someone has studied just people who
> identify only with the C-word and never with the D-word.)
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> ---
>
> (2.) And what are the ethics of academics coming up with what they
> consider to be "cutting edge" or "transgressive" terms to describe
> people being studied, subjects who in many if not perhaps even a
> majority or vast majority of cases, have never described themselves in
> those terms?
>
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> There does not seem to be at least in the past decade or two any
> pressure to rename say, women's studies or feminist studies or Puerto
> Rican studies with any newly "reclaimed" pejorative terms (gender
> studies being a different conceptual scope, not just a different name),
> nor to rename African American studies / Black Studies with any more
> daring reclaimed pejorative names associated with hate speech.... but
> there does seem to be a pressure within academia to drop the term LGBT
> Studies in favor of "Queer Studies" (which is sometimes sold as a
> slightly different scope, but I'm not buying that spin), and perhaps
> also there is a little pressure to drop the term "disability studies" in
> favor of "crip studies"?
>
> (Is there some phenomenon going on here, where the smaller and less
> established a group is, the more vulnerable it is to internal pressure
> to keep changing it's name? Why would some groups subject themselves
> to this more than others? Higher levels of internalised self hatred?)
>
> The one context in which I have seen that pressure is in a meeting on
> planning some public lectures on what was originally in the group -
> termed "the intersection of disability studies and LGBT studies", a
> meeting in which possible names for these events were being toyed with,
> and a (heterosexual) disability studies person at the table wondered --
> if the word "queer" was going to be used, was the word "disability"
> somehow not up to speed, not hip enough, and so if "queer" were used
> would it require something more transgressive than "disability" to be
> used next to it; like "crip" being used... to sort of (my paraphrasing)
> "keep up with the Jonses."
>
> Jim
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