The past few years have been apocalyptic for disabled people, or for many who identify as crip or cripqueer, for innumerable reasons. Not only was the COVID-19 pandemic itself disabling or lethal to millions of people, but also in many locations able-bodied people defiantly resisted any call for social distancing or masking that would protect disabled, sick, or immunocompromised people. Crip examples of apocalyptic situations such as these could be extended indefinitely. What might it mean to think cripistemologically, or to access crip rage (and perhaps paradoxically and simultaneously, crip joy) in such circumstances?
Robert McRuer (Thu,) studied this question.