Crip-of-Color Critique
from Part II - Critical Methodologies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 July 2022
Eli Clare’s groundbreaking memoir Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation (1999) examines the intersections of class, queerness, and disability. Clare, influenced by queer women of color, disrupts the boundaries between gender identity, sexuality, and disability, demonstrating how these various identities are hopelessly entangled. For Clare, “[g]ender reaches into disability, disability wraps around class; class strains against abuse; abuse snarls into sexuality; sexuality folds on top of race … everything finally piling into a single human body.”1 Clare articulates how queer/crip theories of the body disrupt normalcy and refuse easy answers as they question and blur the boundaries of identity and agency. Clare’s work is foundational to the subfield of disability studies called crip theory.
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