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Sophie Rose is a curator and researcher working on Gadigal Country. She is currently Associate Curator – Programs at Artspace, Sydney. Rose has contributed to various exhibitions, programs, and publications at MoMA PS1; SITE Santa Fe International; Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College; Brief Histories, New York; Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA); and University of Queensland Art Museum. Alongside her curatorial practice, she has contributed critical and scholarly writing for publications such as Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Art Asia Pacific, and Un Magazine, and was the editor of the book of artist interviews Glot: Four Conversations on Voice.
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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.