Central to theorization about Crip Theory is Kafer's posing of Crip Theory to be thought about as "the crip vision of an elsewhere."

Crip Futurity as An Elsewhere

Price discusses that because Crip Futurity, like Queer Futurity, can reinscribe harm, in discussing time was must recogonize harm as a core aspect of time and be accountable to that harm in how we discuss time.

Crip Futurity, Time and Accountability

Crip Futurity, notably popularized by Alison Kafer and Robert McRuer in Feminist, Queer, Crip, is a term meant to challenge the predominant conceptualization of disability as a condition that is incompatible with future and future existence, either through causing the end of one's life or as something that humanity will eventually overcome. Crip Futurity comes out of Kafer asking the question of what would it mean to imagine futures that actively and radically include disabled people, and may be even shaped by disabled people.

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Price highlights that Thick Temporality becomes even more pertinent when talking about theories of Crip Time including Alison Kafer's discussion of crip time that highlights how while we image crip futurity to leave behind the history of harm, abuse, colonization and slavery that are central to modern and historic definitions of the formation of disability, futurity my reinscribe these things. 

Thick Temporality and Crip Time

Kafer, Alison. (2013). Feminist, Queer, Crip. Indiana University Press. 978-0-253-00934-0. 

Feminist, Queer, Crip

Crip Futurity

In "Feminist, Queer, Crip" Alison Kafer reflects on the history of the cyborg as both framed as a figure of futurist feminist critique by scholars like Donna Haraway, but also as a space of militarization, colonization and institutionalization. While Haraway frames the cyborg as an example how breaking down binaristic categories between human and animal, and human an machine may lead us to a more livable future, Kafer discusses how Harawary's analysis can be read as devoid of looking at how cyborgs, in the science-fiction imaginary and in actuality have been used as tools of militarization, colonization and institutionalization through the imagination of cyborgs as figures like Robocop and Terminator, the presentation of cyborgification as a cure for disability, and how the rhetoric of cyborgs was used in the mid-20th century in discussion around the involuntary psychiatric drugging of institutionalized patients.

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