Crip Negativity

J. Logan Smilges' book Crip Negativity critiques the category of disability and liberal disability politics and proposes that bad crip feelings can help us to care gently for one another while demanding more from the world. It is part of the Forerunners: Ideas First series, which publishes scholarly work initiated in blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and academic exchange.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 106 pages
Publication date: 26 June 2023
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press

Imagining anti-ableist liberation beyond the rubrics of access and inclusion

In the thirty years since the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law, the lives of disabled people have not improved nearly as much as activists and politicians had hoped. In Crip Negativity, J. Logan Smilges shows us what’s gone wrong and what we can do to fix it.

Leveling a strong critique of the category of disability and liberal disability politics, Smilges asks and imagines what horizons might exist for the liberation of those oppressed by ableism—beyond access and inclusion. Inspired by models of negativity in queer studies, Black studies, and crip theory, Smilges proposes that bad crip feelings might help all of us to care gently for one another, even as we demand more from the world than we currently believe to be possible.

Forerunners: Ideas First is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital publications. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.

Weight: 112g
Dimension: 125 x 177 x 11 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781517915582