Alison Kafer
Associate Professor, Feminist Studies
Author of Feminist, Queer, Crip
In this talk, Kafer explores three potential sites for coalition politics--trans and genderqueer bathroom access, environmental justice, and reproductive rights and justice--in order to develop a crip futurity that finds value in dissent and disagreement, that recognizes loss, that remains open. Using these three sites of possibility, she speculates on how we might extend and challenge the parameters of disability theory and politics, a theory and politics which too rarely engages in serious coalition work with other movements, communities, and inquiries. Reading narratives and movements as crip, even when they do not explicitly mention disability, might lead all of us to begin thinking disability, and disability futures, otherwise.Southwestern University
Areas of Expertise
Disabilty Studies, Feminist and Queer Theory, Activism
