Getting Emotionally Naked: Notes on an Activist Voice
I just submitted a paper to Atlantis with my good friend and colleague from SF State’s Sexuality Studies graduate program Sonny on coalitional politics and embodied scholar-activist efforts to further...
View ArticleCrip on Crip Action: Scholar-Activist Love
This is a repost of an interview of me done by the delicious Philosopher Crip (aka Joe). He’s a great disability scholar-activist comrade who was open to me sharing this on my blog. Please use this as...
View ArticleThe Politics of Presenting Cripsex
I recently violated my self-imposed rule of 3 months needed for any event-planning and I’m feeling it. I’m exhausted from putting together the Reel to Real Disability film fest with dynamic panel...
View ArticlePolitical Economy of Disablement
In response to a recent blogroll on Disablism – I chose to share a talk I gave last week about poverty and disability for Georgia State University’s chapter of Amnesty Intentional; specifically to...
View ArticleLearning about KripLove from Krip Hop: Part 3 – KripLove is THE Revolution
Krip Hop Nation in ATL and other events like it (such as the DaDa Fest in England next month) subvert the traditional model of disability awareness by encouraging people in the crowd to acknowledge and...
View ArticleLearning about KripLove from Krip Hop: Part 4 – What’s in a Word?
One of the big issues before and after the Krip Hop Nation event was the language of the movement – specifically the use of the word ‘Krip.’ Many scholars and activists in the disability communities...
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