Disability

Progressive Temporality and Neoliberalism in Alison Kafer’s Feminist, Queer, Crip

Alison’s Kafer’s chapter “Time for Disability Studies and a Future for Crips”, from her larger work, Feminist, Queer, Crip, offers an in depth critique and reworking of normative temporality…

Alison Kafer and Embodied Time

Alison Kafer’s discussion of how disability studies can help make sense of, or add nuance to, queer time, is a further emphasis on embodiment and how the body works with and through conceptions of queer time. Our discussion last class using Elizabeth Freeman’s work on S/M…

Queer and Disabled Time: Past, Present, and Future

In “Time for Disability Studies and a Future for Quips”, Alison Kafer posits her arguments as drawing upon queer temporality, but disagreeing at a fundamental level with one of its most significant proponents, Lee Edelman, and his book No…

“The time of undiagnosis” :Queer Futurity and the Politics of Recognition in Alison Kafer’s “Time For Disability Studies and a Future for Crips”

In Chapter 1 of Feminist, Queer, Crip, Alison Kafer builds on Lee Edelman’s concept of queer time in his essay “The Future Is Kid Stuff: Queer Theory, Disidentification, and the…