Crip Authorship: Disability as Method

Open Access Published by New York University Press 2023

Crip Authorship

Disability as Method

Edited by: Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez

https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479819386.001.0001

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About this book

An expansive volume presenting crip approaches to writing, research, and publishing.

Crip Authorship: Disability as Method is an expansive volume presenting the multidisciplinary methods brought into being by disability studies and activism. Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez have convened leading scholars, artists, and activists to explore the ways disability shapes authorship, transforming cultural production, aesthetics, and media.

Starting from the premise that disability is plural and authorship spans composition, affect, and publishing, this collection of thirty-five compact essays asks how knowledge about disability is produced and shared in disability studies. Disability alters, generates, and dismantles method. Crip authorship takes place within and beyond the commodity version of authorship, in books, on social media, and in creative works that will never be published.

The chapters draw on the expertise of international researchers and activists in the humanities, social sciences, education, arts, and design. Across five sections—Writing, Research, Genre/Form, Publishing, Media—contributors consider disability as method for creative work: practices of writing and other forms of composition; research methods and collaboration; crip aesthetics; media formats and hacks; and the capital, access, legal standing, and care networks required to publish. Designed to be accessible and engaging for students, Crip Authorship also provides theoretically sophisticated arguments in a condensed form that will make the text a key resource for disability studies scholars.

Essays include Mel Y Chen on the temporality of writing with chronic illness; Remi Yergeau on perseveration; La Marr Jurelle Bruce on mad Black writing; Alison Kafer on the reliance of the manifesto genre on disability; Jaipreet Virdi on public scholarship for disability justice; Ellen Samuels on the importance of disability and illness to autotheory; Xuan Thuy Nguyen on decolonial research methods for disability studies; Emily Lim Rogers on virtual ethnography; Cameron Awkward-Rich on depression and trans reading methods; Robert McRuer on crip theory in translation; Kelsie Acton on plain language writing; and Georgina Kleege on description as an access and aesthetic technique.

Author / Editor information

Mills Mara :

Mara Mills is Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Mills is cofounder of the NYU Center for Disability Studies and coeditor of Crip Authorship: Disability as Method.Sanchez Rebecca :

Rebecca Sanchez is Professor of English and director of the disability studies program at Fordham University. She is the author of Deafening Modernism: Embodied Language and Visual Poetics in American Literature and (with Mara Mills) co-editor of the republication of Pauline Leader’s And No Birds Sing.Mara Mills (Editor)
Mara Mills is Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Mills is cofounder of the NYU Center for Disability Studies and coeditor of Crip Authorship: Disability as Method.

Rebecca Sanchez (Editor)
Rebecca Sanchez is Professor of English and director of the disability studies program at Fordham University. She is the author of Deafening Modernism: Embodied Language and Visual Poetics in American Literature and (with Mara Mills) co-editor of the republication of Pauline Leader’s And No Birds Sing.

Reviews

The intent of this collective volume, expertly edited by long-standing disability advocates and scholars Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez, is to show how disability can function as a methodologic prism to perceive authorship issues and return them in a radically different way, finding natural intersections with a whole universe of critical studies representing organization studies in diverse manners.

Karla Strand:
This illuminating collection of essays focuses on the variety and value of crip creation, methodology, writing and research. With contributions from Mel Y Chen, Jaipreet Virdi, Emily Lim Rogers, Ellen Samuels and many more, it is urgent and original.

This field-changing collection is theoretically sophisticated and politically charged! This book crucially shows how disability is not only an identity formation, but also a method to revise how we write, critique, and enact change. The collection most importantly engages disability as it relates to race, the non-West, colonialism, sexuality, gender identity, and class, offering an exciting and much needed model for our field. This text redefines how we theorize, imagine, and produce disability.

This is a fantastic, urgent, singular, and kaleidoscopic book. Crip Authorship uses disability to explode the very idea of method: this is a book about research, but also about writing, thinking, publishing, and inhabiting. Crip Authorship is essential reading for any scholar who does anything with disability in their work; it is even more essential reading for those who don’t. This is a field-changing collection.

Crip Authorship moves directly into the most urgent debates in critical disability studies, focusing on questions of methodology, race, queerness, cross-disability solidarity, and what it means to make or publish crip work. An extraordinary array of authors, both emerging and well-known, contribute original pieces and provoke thrilling new conversations. This remarkable volume will be of interest to readers across many fields and methodological orientations. Crip Authorship argues for, and also demonstrates, the powerful interdisciplinarity of crip scholarship and its potential to work toward greater justice.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: On Crip Authorship and Disability as Method Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Section I: Writing
1. Writing While Adjunct: A Contingent Pedagogy of Unwellness Mimi Khúc Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
2. Chronic Illness, Slowness, and the Time of Writing Mel Y. Chen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
3. Composing Perseveration / Perseverative Composing M. Remi Yergeau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
4. Mad Black Rants La Marr Jurelle Bruce Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
5. Plain Language for Disability Culture Kelsie Acton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
6. Peter Pan World: In-System Authorship by Isolation Nation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
7. LatDisCrit and Counters Alexis Padilla Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
Section II: Research
8. Virtual Ethnography Emily Lim Rogers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
9. Learning Disability Justice through Critical Participatory Action Research Laura J. Wernick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
10. Decolonial Disability Studies Xuan Thuy Nguyen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
11. On Still Reading Like a Depressed Transsexual Cameron Awkward-Rich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
12. On Trauma in Research on Illness, Disability, and Care Laura Mauldin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
13. Injury, Recovery, and Representation in Shikaakwa Laurence Ralph Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
14. Collaborative Research on the Möbius Strip Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
15. Lessons in Yielding: Crip Refusal and Ethical Research Praxis Zoe H. Wool Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
16. Creating a Fully Accessible Digital Helen Keller Archive Helen Selsdon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
Section III: Genre/Form
17. Manifesting Manifestos Alison Kafer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
18. Public Scholarship as Disability Justice Jaipreet Virdi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
19. Twenty-Seven Ways of Looking at Crip Autotheory Ellen Samuels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
20. Disability Life Writing in India Mohaiminul Islam and Ujjwal Jana Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
21. The History and Politics of Krip-Hop Leroy F. Moore and Keith Jones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
22. Verbal and Nonverbal Metaphor Asa Ito Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Section IV: Publishing
23. Accessible Academic Publishing Cynthia Wu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
24. #DisabilityStudiesTooWhite Kristen Bowen, Rachel Kuo and Mara Mills Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	244
25. A Philosophical Analysis of ASL-English Bilingual Publishing Teresa Blankmeyer Burke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
26. Crip World-Making Robert McRuer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	274
27. Disability in the Library and Librarianship Stephanie S. Rosen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	282
28. The Rebuttal: A Protactile Poem John Lee Clark Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
Section V: Media
29. Crip Making Aimi Hamraie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
30. Fiction Podcasts Model Description by Design Georgina Kleege Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	318
31. Podcasting for Disability Justice Bri M. Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	326
32. Willful Dictionaries and Crip Authorship in CART Louise Hickman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	332
33. How to Model AAC Lateef H. McLeod Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
34. Digital Spaces and the Right to Information for Deaf People during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Zimbabwe Lovemore Chidemo, Agness Chindimba and Onai Hara Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	343
35. Crip Indigenous Storytelling across the Digital Divide Jen Deerinwater Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	350
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
About the Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	357
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365