Relating to discourse consisting of how we define who is part of a group both colloquially and through legal, medical, and other formalized definitions

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Material-discursive refers to how crip spacetime is made up of how individuals interact with the material world and discourse. The hyphen between material and discursive shows that there is not a neat dividing line between material and discursive since they are both coconstitutive. 

Material-discursive

Price, M. (2024). Crip Spacetime. Duke University Press.

Crip Spacetime

Material/materiality refers to how we exist in the world and our embodied realities, notably material/materiality is not meant to mention labels put on our experience or how we sort our selves into groups.

Material

Discursive

To be legible as being disabled builds off material-discursive existences to explain how someone is seen by the broader world as disabled doesn't only affect whether they are called disabled or the words that are used about their existence, and that others expect them to use about their existence, but it also affects how people get access to medications and treatments, and if someone is seen as deserving of accommodation.

Legibility

Karen Barad uses the term entanglement to describe the coconstitutive nature of material and discursive and uses the idea of entanglement to argue that we don't exist in ways that are fully self-contained and free from interaction with multiple frames of existence.

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