![]() ![]() ![]() This is partially because homosexuality used to be classified as a disease, or disability, or symptom of some other mental disability/deficit. So, while many of the concepts in this book were already familiar to me, I was very glad to read this book and encounter them directly myself.Ĭrip theory is similar to queer theory like compulsory able-bodiedness is similar to compulsory heterosexuality- one of the arguments of the book is that both fields and experiences of oppression have a lot in common. ![]() I am friends with lots of people who read and work in disability studies, some of whom identify as disabled and some of whom do not (that I know of), but I haven’t done much reading in the field myself, so most of my knowledge is second-hand (third-hand?). This is a book that I had a general sense of already from how people I know talk about its concepts- crip time, cripping composition, etc. ![]()
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