#crip studies

However, with chronic pain, which has no obvious external cause and becomes a part of the phenomenological self, when others react with disgust, it is as though they are reacting with disgust towards the individual with chronic pain. This is especially the case when combined with wider ableist social structures that reinforce the ‘better dead than disabled’ message underlying ‘sympathetic’ statements along the lines of ‘I wouldn’t be able to cope if I were like you’.

Rather than bend disabled bodies and minds to meet the clock, crip time bends the clock to meet disabled bodies and minds

neoliberalism provides an ecosystem for the nourishment of ableism, which we can define as neoliberal-abelism. We are all expected to overcome economic downturn and respond to austerity through adhering to abelism’s ideals, its narrow conceptions of personhood, its arrogance and its propensity to buddy up with other fascistic ideologies