Crip Negativity
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In the thirty years since the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law, the lives of disabled people have not improved nearly as much as activists and politicians had hoped. In *Crip Negativity*, J. Logan Smilges shows us what’s gone wrong and what we can do to fix it. Leveling a strong critique of the category of disability and liberal disability politics, Smilges asks and imagines what horizons might exist for the liberation of those oppressed by ableism—beyond access and inclusion. Inspired by models of negativity in queer studies, Black studies, and crip theory, Smilges proposes that bad crip feelings might help all of us to care gently for one another, even as we demand more from the world than we currently believe to be possible.
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Ableism extends beyond what the concept of access can fully capture, and access may unintentionally reproduce ableism.
“Nevertheless, emerging critiques have highlighted the limits of such narratives, revealing that ableism extends beyond what the concept of access can fully capture, and at times may unintentionally reproduce ableism [75, 79, 97, 98].”
From Access in the Shadow of Ableism: An Autoethnography of a Blind Student's Higher Education Experience in China (2026) · cites this paper as [79]
Access is often embedded within larger ableist structures or systems that pressure people with disabilities to conform and be included.
“An increasing body of scholarship suggests that access is often embedded within larger ableist structures or systems that pressure PWD to conform and be included [75, 79].”
From Access in the Shadow of Ableism: An Autoethnography of a Blind Student's Higher Education Experience in China (2026) · cites this paper as [79]
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- Authors
- Smilges, J. L.
- Corresponding author
- Smilges, J. Logan
- ORCID
- Smilges, J. Logan
- Venue
- Forerunners
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Published
- 2023-05
- ISSN
- 2373-5074 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4367627413
- Cited by
- 88
- References
- 57
- Citations by year
- 2026: 38 · 2025: 29 · 2024: 19 · 2023: 2
- FWCI
- 33.45
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by-nc-nd
- Locations
- Forerunners (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Disability Rights and Representation
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Inclusion and Disability in Education and Sport
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Feminist Theory and Gender Studies
- Keywords
- disability, crip theory, negativity, ableism, Americans with Disabilities Act, queer theory, Black studies, access and inclusion, oppression, liberation
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