crip theory Quick reference
A Dictionary of Sports Studies
... theory A strand of critical cultural analysis that, alongside ‘queer perspectives and practices’, has ‘been deployed to resist the contemporary spectacle of able-bodied heteronormativity’, as Robert McRuer ( Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability , 2006 ) puts it. Dominant conceptions of able-bodiedness in sport are vulnerable to critique in the sense that they have often matter-of-factly assumed the ideal body to be the platform for and pinnacle of sporting excellence. The term ‘crip’ emerged in disability movements, as an adaptation and...
Crip Theory Reference library
Jeffrey Bennett
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Queer Studies and Communication
...crip critiques by resisting cure narratives, challenging expectations of conformity, and extolling “queerness and neurodiversity as human variations not to be devalued” ( Oswald et al., 2021 ). Despite this promising work, studies utilizing crip theory in the field tend to be centered in the United States and often focus on White people. On that note, crip theory might be more robustly taken up in different parts of the discipline. Work on crip theory has tended to rest in rhetoric, media, and performance studies. What might it look like to take up crip...
Disability Studies, Crip Theory, and Education Reference library
Rachel Hanebutt and Carlyn Mueller
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality in Education
...(n.p.). This work is still ongoing in the field. Crip Theory: A Brief Introduction Crip theory has been positioned as an extension of disability studies and exists in conversation with the field of disability studies more broadly. Crip theory is defined as an intersectional identity politic stemming from critical disability studies, as well as queer studies ( McRuer, 2006 ). It is a multifaceted approach to understanding culture in a manner that centers experiences and movements of disabled people. Crip theory also has roots in activism and artistic culture,...
crip theory
Queer Theory Reference library
Beth Hutchison
The Oxford Encyclopedia Women in World History
...treatment. Similarly self‐described “crips” and others whose biomechanical functions, appearance, or limb count differ from the “able‐bodied” norm are insisting on visibility without tokenism (taking up Queer Nation's rallying cry “We're Here, We're Queer, Get Used to It!” with a difference), demanding agency in directing medical care and service provision, and proclaiming their sexualities. Transgender activists have adopted strategies that draw from both identity politics and the deconstructive principles of queer theory. Members of Transsexual Menace have...
Queer Intercultural Communication: Sexuality and Intercultural Communication Reference library
Taisha McMickens, Miranda Dottie Olzman, and Bernadette Marie Calafell
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Queer Studies and Communication
...community. In S. Eguchi & B. M. Calafell (Eds.), Queer intercultural communication: The intersectional politics of belonging in and across difference (pp. 117–140). Rowman & Littlefield. McRuer, R. (2006). Crip theory: Cultural signs of queerness and disability . New York University Press. Moraga, C. , & Anzaldúa, G. (2015). Theory in the flesh. In C. Moraga & G. Anzaldúa (Eds.), This bridge called my back: Writings by radical women of color (4th ed., p. 19). SUNY Press. Moreman, S. T. , & Briones, S. R. (2018). Deaf queer world-making: A...
Organized Crime Reference library
The Oxford Companion to American Law
...seeking the thrills of combat with other youth gangs for control of delinquent “turf.” The rise of black gangs in the mid-1980s, primarily the Crips and the Bloods, originating in the Los Angeles ghettos, is due in large part to crack. The Crips, estimated in the 1980s and 1990s at thirty thousand strong, spread eastward principally as purveyors of crack. By 1991 , the U.S. Department of Justice located the Crips and the Bloods (a drug gang some ten thousand strong) in 113 cities across thirty-two states. These gangs are reflections of a demographic bulge...
Homonationalism’s Viral Travels Reference library
Hana Masri
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Queer Studies and Communication
...of nationalism rather than wholesale excluded, McRuer (2010) wrote of “disability nationalism in crip times.” He argued that disability studies must better attend to the geopolitics of disability, specifically the way that global phenomena problematize identity-based and nationalist frameworks—such as the able-bodied versus disabled binary—that shape the field (pp. 163–164). Further elaborating on this point, Markotić and McRuer (2012) theorized “crip nationalism,” a term that marks “an emergent, neoliberal form of nationalism that works in and through...
Queer African Studies Reference library
Godfried Asante
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Queer Studies and Communication
...insights into the working of heteronormativity, it has been critiqued as unable to adequately capture the material realities of people who are non-Western, white, able-bodied queer subjects. In response to such critiques, several adjustments to queer theory have been made (e.g., Quare studies, Kaur Studies, Crip studies, etc.). Transnational queer scholars have also argued that the breadth of queer studies has been uncritically used preemptively to define and explore sexual politics in non-Western contexts without first grounding it in the cultural and...
Queering Buddhist Traditions Reference library
Bee Scherer
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Buddhism
...“Introduction: Queering Paradigms,” in Queering Paradigms , ed. B[ee] Scherer (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2010), 1–6; 1–2. 3. See Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, “Queer and Now,” in Tendencies , ed. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (New York and London: Routledge, 2004), 8. 4. See Robert McRuer, Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability (New York: New York University Press, 2006). 5. Bee Scherer, “ Queer Thinking Religion: Queering Religious Paradigms,” Scholar & Feminist Online 14, no. 2 (2017). 6. For initial overviews of these fields, see, e.g., Amy Paris...
HIV/AIDS: The Queer Communication of HIV in the LGBTQ Community Reference library
Andrew R. Spieldenner and Bolivar X. Nieto
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Queer Studies and Communication
...and Treatment, 2011 , 562790. Martos, A. J. , Wilson, P. A. , & Meyer, I. H. (2017). Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) health services in the United States: Origins, evolution, and contemporary landscape . PLOS ONE , 12 (7), 0180544. McRuer, R. (2006). Crip theory: Cultural signs of queerness and disability . New York University Press. Morris, C. E., III . (2012). ACT UP 25: HIV/AIDS, archival queers, and mnemonic world making. Quarterly Journal of Speech , 98 (1), 49–53. Mumford, K. J. (2016). Not straight, not White: Black gay men...
Performance of Brown Sexualities Reference library
Shane Moreman
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Queer Studies and Communication
...body politic. By shifting inclusion away from patrilineal, heterosexual reproduction and more toward ritualized relations, generational production becomes a queer iterative practice toward creating Latinidad. This Latinidad gathers outsider members (e.g., Muslim, trans-identified, Crip, undocumented) for the creation of an inclusive collective of politically minded survivors. Performing Brownness with one another, we transform one another into family as we renew how cultural endurance can improve current and future societies. One way Brownness is performed is...
Gay Pornography Reference library
Joseph Brennan
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Queer Studies and Communication
...what Jamie Gough (1989) describes as “masculinity as a sexual fetish” (p. 121; examples of alternative and nonnormative body types in the literature is a generally underexamined area, though exceptions do exist, i.e., Highberg, 2011 , on fat and Thorneycroft, 2021 , on crip representation). Such fetishization was made famous by the illustrations of Tom and Finland, among others, who rose to prominence in the pages of publications like Physique Pictorial . Shaun Cole (2014) —using the example Colt Studio founder Jim French’s films, 1967–1981...
Critical Perspectives in Youth Gang Formation in the United States Reference library
Kevin D. Lam
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Race and Education
...accessibility to high-powered firearms. The introduction of crack cocaine into the inner city was a major issue and had deleterious effects on Black communities for decades to come. Streets gangs, ever present in the community, exploded on the national scene—as groups like the Crips and Bloods became part of U.S. popular culture and vernacular. Two major incidents in Los Angeles, in particular, kept racialized gang members in the news nightly and on the first page of the newspapers and magazines. First, the shooting murder of Karen Toshima in the Westwood...
Disability Reference library
Encyclopedia of Social Work (20 ed.)
...R. , & Salsgiver, R. (1999). Disability: A diversity model approach in human service practice . Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole. May, G. , & Raske, M. (2005). Ending disability discrimination: Strategies for social workers . Boston: Allyn & Bacon. McRuer, R. (2006). Crip theory: Cultural signs of queerness and disability . New York: New York University. Metzler, I. (2006). Disability in medieval Europe: Thinking about physical impairment during the high Middle Ages (pp. 1100–1400). London: Routledge. Miles, M. (2002). Community and individual...
LGBTQ+ Workers Reference library
Elizabeth K. Eger, Morgan L. Litrenta, Sierra R. Kane, and Lace D. Senegal
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Queer Studies and Communication
...policies. For example, organizations may share policies and practices against homophobia or transphobia, but simultaneously lack policies addressing LGBTQ+ workers’ experiences of racism, ableism, or languages spoken. Researchers should explore what decolonial, queer, trans, and crip futures can be imagined, created, and enacted for LGBTQ+ workers and organizations. Theorizing leadership and diversity management of intersectional identities of LGBTQ+ workers could also enrich future scholarship and praxis. Second, LGBTQ+ people are not monoliths; thus, we need...
o.g. n. Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
...Jargon in White America 73: O.G. n. Old Girl; mother. 2 ( US black ) in context of street gangs [abbr. o riginal g angster. The term allegedly appeared with the formation of the Original Gangster Crips, a breakaway group of Los Angeles' West Side Crips. Both gangs were a subgroup or set n. 1 (1b) of the larger gang, the Crips. One theory suggests that only proven killers qualify as true o.g. s] . (a) a street-smart person, a leading member of a gang; also attrib. 1985 T.R. Houser Central Sl. 39: O.G. Original gangster. 1991 L. Bing ...
beat n. 3 Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
...doesn't know that Mackaboy is good for contributions, cash or kind, when everything else fails. 1915 M.G. Hayden ‘Terms Of Disparagement’ in DN IV:iii 198: beat, a worthless, idle fellow. 1922 E. Dyson Missing Link [Internet] Ch. i: The familiars of Mr. Nicholas Crips were […] all ‘beats,’ that is to say, gentlemen sitting on the rail dividing honest toil from open crime. 1960, 1975 Wentworth & Flexner DAS . 4 ( US Und. ) a swindle. 1933 Ersine Und. and Prison Sl. 5 ( also beatster ) a beatnik. 1958 Kerouac ‘The Origins of...
Disability Studies Reference library
Robert McRuer
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory
...theory, queer theory, and critical race theory—analytics that (as Garland-Thomson’s overview of a feminist disability studies already suggests) necessarily overlap and inform each other. These critical analytics are at times saturated by questions about impairment and disability. Queer of color critique, in particular, a vital area of inquiry at the absolute center of the larger project of queer theory in the 21st century , has deep affinities with the form of disability critique that has come to be called crip theory. Queer of color analysis and crip...
Queer Theory Reference library
Lilith Acadia
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory
...generational repetitions of (bourgeois) heterosexual reproduction in a cyclical model of time premised on “Oedipal regularity and repetitiveness.” 36 Queer temporality questions straight time’s normative assumptions, as also evident in Crip theory’s critique of “curative” normative temporality; Alison Kafer describes “crip time” as rejecting normative, homogenizing pressure to conform to a perceived desirability. 37 The very possibility of transgender lives is a further queering of straight time, challenging reproduction as a basis for an individual’s...
