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.
Contents
Introduction: On Crip Authorship and Disability as Method. Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez
Section I: Writing
1.Writing While Adjunct. Mimi Khúc.
2. Chronic Illness, Slowness, and the Time of Writing. Mel Y. Chen.
3. Composing Perseveration / Perseverative Composing. M. Remi Yergeau.
4. Mad Black Rants. La Marr Jurelle Bruce.
5. Plain Language for Disability Culture. Kelsie Acton.
6. Peter Pan World: In-System Authorship. Isolation Nation.
7. LatDisCrit and Counterstories. Alexis Padilla.
Section II: Research
8. Virtual Ethnography. Emily Lim Rogers.
9. Learning Disability Justice Through Critical Participatory Action Research. Laura J. Wernick.
10. Decolonial Disability Studies. Xuan Thuy Nguyen.
11. On Still Reading Like a Depressed Transsexual. Cameron Awkward-Rich.
12. On Trauma in Research on Illness, Disability, and Care. Laura Mauldin.
13. Injury, Recovery, and Representation in Shikaakwa. Laurence Ralph.
14. Collaborative Research on the Möbius Strip. Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp.
15. Lessons in Yielding: Crip Refusal and Ethical Research Praxis. Zoë H. Wool.
16. Creating a Fully Accessible Digital Helen Keller Archive. Helen Selsdon.
Section III: Genre
17. Manifesting Manifestos. Alison Kafer.
18. Public Scholarship as Disability Justice. Jaipreet Virdi.
19. Crip Autotheory. Ellen Samuels.
20. Disability Life Writing in India. Mohaiminul Islam and Ujjwal Jana.
21. The History and Politics of Krip-Hop. Leroy F. Moore, Jr. and Keith Jones.
22. Verbal and Nonverbal Metaphor. Asa Ito.
Section IV: Publishing
23. Accessible Academic Publishing. Cynthia Wu.
24. #DisabilityStudiesTooWhite. Kristen Bowen, Rachel Kuo, and Mara Mills.
25. A Philosophical Analysis of ASL/English Bilingual Publishing. Teresa Blankmeyer Burke.
26. Crip World-Making. Robert McRuer.
27. Disability in the Library and Librarianship. Stephanie S. Rosen.
28. The Rebuttal: A Protactile Poem. John Lee Clark.
Section V: Media
29. Crip Making. Aimi Hamraie.
30. Fiction Podcasts Model Description by Design. Georgina Kleege.
31. Podcasting for Disability Justice. Bri M.
32. Willful Dictionaries and Crip Authorship in CART. Louise Hickman.
33. How to Model AAC. Lateef H. McLeod.
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.
35. Crip Indigenous Storytelling Across the Digital Divide. Jen Deerinwater.
Find the introduction in Open Access here:
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.18574/nyu/9781479819386.001.0001/html#overview
Link on the publisher’s website:
https://nyupress.org/9781479819362/crip-authorship/