Even within this range of action, liberation and individual rights have been the cornerstones of disability activism from the 1970s onwards, and the academic discipline of disability studies that followed close behind. In the 2000s, however, thinkers such as Robert McRuer and Eli Clare took a more transgressive approach, reappropriating the figure of the “crip” or the “freak,” defying normative categories with a middle finger raised. In refusing assimilation to—or “accessible” amendments of—the status quo, the crip is revolutionary, avant-garde even. The crip wants a total reconfiguration of norms, not just ramps and closed captions.
Nollyween: Christian Chika Onu’s Karishika, with Seek & Find
Kinetic Painting with Samia Halaby, in collaboration with Amir ElSaffar
Over a decade’s worth of essays: movies of America in parallax view.
“When an empire is lurching to a halt at its very end, it might be the moment when it begins, or is forced, to re-imagine its relationship to a national insanity.
Bar Laika presents Playback 008 with Faten Kanaan