Women,Gender,Sexuality Studies 693C - S- Crip Theory

This course examines the interface between critical disability and sexuality studies. We will follow a genealogical approach that traces the development of crip theory in direct relation to queer theory and with particular attention to the way this field engages race and transnational political economy. As such we will explore multiple frameworks for approaching disability queerly: intersectionally, through the lens of affect, and as an assemblage signifying a temporal or spatial frame. Following the materialist turn in disability studies, we will explore how illness, debility, and precarity are produced via occupation and warfare, (im)migration, labor, and the proliferation of global capitalism; the policing of bodily and mental norms in educational, carceral, and medical arenas in the U.S.; and the coterminous crip desires, epistemologies, and methods that disturb or exceed these processes. This course will build on students? prior engagements with queer theory. Readings will include work by Nirmala Erevelles, Alison Kafer, Jasbir Puar, Julie Livingston, Mel Chen, Nayan Shah, Fiona Kumari Campbell, Karen Nakamura, Cathy Cohen, Liat Ben Moshe, and others.