Stasis-Maintenance-(Un)productive-Presence: Parenting a Disabled Child as Crip Time

Authors

  • Adam W. Davidson Judy Genshaft Honors College, University of South Florida

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v40i3.6693

Keywords:

autoethnography, parenting, crip time, children with disabilities

Abstract

In what follows, I represent and analyze time as "crip time" in the context of parenting a child with disabilities. That is, I seek to challenge, reimagine, and even upend, the normalized structures that often order our lives in time and our expectations of what makes for a meaningful life in the present, and as a result, a desirable, or even possible future. Using Alison Kafer's Feminist, Queer, Crip as a foundation, in four autoethnographic accounts, recounting a typical day in my life with my 15-year-old son, I consider time as Stasis, Maintenance, (Un)productive, and Presence.

Downloads

Published

2020-09-10

How to Cite

Davidson, A. W. (2020). Stasis-Maintenance-(Un)productive-Presence: Parenting a Disabled Child as Crip Time. Disability Studies Quarterly, 40(3). https://doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v40i3.6693