Crip Authorship: Disability as Method

A book presentation with the International Center for Finer Arts Kampnagel

Friday, 12^th May at 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm (ET) / 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm (CET)

From Thursday to Sunday this week, the International Center for Finer Arts Kampnagel, in Hamburg (Germany) is presenting the first Performative Book Fair ever! The event is questioning exclusionary mechanisms of the literary production in a capitalist and violent system, and exploring aesthetics and political potential of speculative fiction, storytelling and revolutionary writing, through interventions, installations, networking spaces, panel discussions and lectures with artists, authors, publishers, activists and researchers.

In the frame of this book fair, Kampnagel has invited editors Mara Mills and Rebecca Sánchez to collaborate in an online event to present the publication “Crip Authorship – Disability as Method” (forthcoming in July from NYU Press). This expansive volume presents the multidisciplinary methods brought into being by disability studies and activism. Starting from the premise that disability is plural and authorship spans composition, affect, and publishing, this collection of thirty-five compact essays asks how knowledge about disability is produced and shared in disability studies. Three of the volume’s authors will share excerpts from their chapters:

Alison Kafer (University of Texas, Austin), “Manifesting Manifestos”

Teresa Blankmeyer Burke (Gallaudet University), “ASL Books and Chirocentric Publication”

Jen Deerinwater (Cherokee Nation, Crushing Colonialism), “Crip Indigenous Storytelling Across the Digital Divide”

Mara Mills and Rebecca Sánchez will moderate the event.

ZOOM LINK HERE