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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?
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...
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."
4 sty 2024 · Crip theory challenges normative standards and embraces non-normativity. It rejects the idea that disabled bodies need to conform to able-bodied norms, encouraging acceptance and celebration of diverse ways of being and moving through the world.
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.
26 maj 2021 · 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).
28 cze 2019 · In our interviews with current and former street gang members, participants consistently described gangs as neighborhood-based entities, but also couched these local identities within much broader Crip or Blood affiliations. These amount to multiple, simultaneously claimed identities.
