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3 sty 2022 · Crip ecologies asks us what happens in these jarring moments: How do we, in these harsh pivots, persevere? How do we flail and hold our grief in our marrow? As a poet, I have to inquire, where does the grief and longing go and how do we store it?
26 maj 2021 · General Overviews. Crip theory depends upon the multivalent word crip, a reclamation and reinvention of the derogatory English-language word cripple. Cripple has historically been used to arouse pity or disdain for a disabled figure (initially largely disabled figures with mobility impairments).
Crip poetics is a school of poetry that resists an ableist tradition of body representation in favor of explicitly turning to lived disabled experiences. As defined by poet Jim Ferris, crip poetics "embodies a disability consciousness; it is informed by and contributes to disability culture."
17 wrz 2024 · Kieran Mitton tells us about the life of Gaz, a former Sierra Leonean gang member who became a poet and then a farmer. His remarkable trajectory shows gangsters are by no means doomed to live...
18 paź 2016 · By illustrating how Spiritual critically analyzed his figured world via spoken word, the author demonstrates the importance of empowering dispossessed youth to be able to critique and examine the material conditions of their lives through “unsanctioned literacies” or “ill-literacies”.
“The assassinations of Malcolm, Martin, and [members of the Black] Panthers led to the rise of the Crips and Los Angeles street gangs. Black people had agitated, demonstrated, legislated, and participated in voting for a century.
The genre of poetry is able to illustrate why chronic illness is a "dissonant disability" (Driedger & Owen, 2008) by experimenting with innovative formal techniques on the page to show both what can be said, and what is left unsaid, about the disabling effects of disease.
