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Alison Kafer - Feminist/Queer/Crip - Coggle Diagram
Alison Kafer -
Feminist/Queer/Crip
What's the problem with "the future" for disability studies?
for people with disabilities, there is assumed to be no future: "a good future is one without disability" (16)
"the absence of disability signifies a better future" (11)
"perfect" worlds are without disabilities
Key terms:
"curative imaginary" or "curative futurism"
"curative imaginary: an understanding of disability that not only
expects
and
assumes
medical intervention but also cannot imagine or comprehend anything other than intervention" (28-9).
Crip time?
an accessible, liveable now (instead of futurity following Edelman)
"eccentric economic practices"
Mel Chen and new temporalities (36). This shows how central disability is to shaping experiences with time ("anticipatory" time).
recognizing that disabilities have various temporalities (quantum disability)
diagnosis and prognosis time (35)
chronic and frequent (27)
reminds us the various chronologies of disabilities
call for a politics rooted in more access
Future texts
The Giver
uh oh, praying on TikTok for folks with CP
The Boy's
Gen V
X-Men
and the history of crip mutants
The Darkest Minds
series
Unraveled