Pronunciations
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/kɹɪp/
Noun
A cripple.
Usage- Offensive
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Alan nodded. "Buster. He's parked in the crip space again. I told him last time I was through warning him about it."
A person with a disability.
Verb
To do a Crip Walk.
To apply a disability justice perspective to something.
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More examples (2)
In performance, the artists under discussion sometimes use queering and cripping against one another; they “queer the crip” and “crip the queer.” That is, queering critiques and expands notions of what it means to be crippled, and cripping critiques and expands notions of what it means to be queer.
In approaching the ISA negatively, we can begin to crip the ways in which it conceptualizes disability, gesturing towards the nonidentical that is concealed through identity and opening up space for the recognition of differences that this putatively universal symbol obfuscates.