Please note: the call for joining the reading group is closed now. The below information is for participants, but can also be used as resource and source of inspiration for others.
Session # 1: 13.10.2025, 4pm-6.30pm: Crip Theory / What is Ableism? / Cripping as Method
Selected Readings:
Talila A Lewis: Working Definition of Ableism. https://www.talilalewis.com/blog/working-definition-of-ableism-january-2022-update
Colligan, Sumi & Jaysane-Darr, Anna (2025) The Disabled Anthropologist. Routledge. Introduction p. 1-20
Mills, Mara & Sanchez, Rebecca (2023) Crip Authorship: Disability as Method. NYU Press. Introduction: On Crip Authorship and Disability as Method.
Additional Resources:
McRuer, Rob. 2018. Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance (NYU Press), p. 18-24
Ableismus tötet, https://ableismus.de/toetet/de
Crip Camp Workshop: https://cripcamp.com/curriculum/
Session #2: 10.11.2025, 4pm-6.30pm: Exhaustion, Pace, Academic Life
Selected Readings:
The Ethics of Pace, Moya Bailey https://read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlantic-quarterly/article-abstract/120/2/285/173304/The-Ethics-of-Pace
Colligan, Sumi & Jaysane-Darr, Anna (2025) The Disabled Anthropologist. Routledge. Chapter 3 WORKING ON PAIN TIME Doing Anthropology While Living with a Painful Chronic Illness, Amanda Votta p. 58-76
Additional Resources:
Kim, Jina. B. & Schalk, Sami (2021). “”Reclaiming the Radical Politics of Self-Care: A Crip-of-Color Critique”, English Language and Literature: Faculty Publications (Smith College, Northampton, MA). https://scholarworks.smith.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1026&context=eng_facpubs
Moving Towards Life https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/moving-towards-life/
Session #3: 8.12.2025, 4pm-6.30pm: Crip Technologies of In/Accessibility
Selected Readings:
Dokumacı, Arseli (2023): Activist Affordances. How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds. Durham: Duke University Press. Chapter: An Archive of Activist Affordance
Price, Margaret (2024) Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life. Duke University Press. Introduction
Additional Resources:
Nagy, Jeff. “Autism and the making of emotion AI: Disability as resource for surveillance capitalism,” New media & society, pp. 3989-4002; 12 pages. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/14614448221109550
Criptopias: Speculative Stories Exploring Worlds Worth Wanting https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544549.3582743
Ashley Shew. Against Technoableism. Rethinking Who Needs Improvement. Chapter: Accessible Futures.
Session #4: 12.1.2026, 4pm-6.30pm: Crip Fieldwork
Selected Readings:
Günel, G., & Watanabe, C. (2024). Patchwork ethnography. American Ethnologist, 51(1), 131-139. https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/amet.13243
Robinson, Carew & Groce (2024) Inaccessible Access: Rethinking Disability Inclusion in Academic Knowledge Creation. Rutgers University Press. Chapter: Against Frictionless Access to Fieldwork: An Ethnography of Audio Describing Virtual Reality, Harshadha Balasubramanian (https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/inaccessible-access/9781978841451/#generate-pdf)
Session #5: 9.2.2026, 4pm-6.30pm: Crips Resisting War and Genocide
Selected Readings:
Jaffee, L.J. (and Stacey Park Milburn). Access-Washing Genocide in Gaza. https://labsforliberation.org/2024/10/04/access-washing-genocide-in-gaza/
Colligan, Sumi & Jaysane-Darr, Anna (2025) The Disabled Anthropologist. Routledge. Chapter 10. THE DISABLED BODY AND THE BODY POLITIC. Multiple Readings and Experiences. Sumi Colligan. p191-208
Additional Resources:
Jasbir K. Puar, “Spatial Debilities: Slow Life and Carceral Capitalism in Palestine,” pp. 393-414; 22 pages
Jackson, Liz and Rua Williams, “How Disabled People Get Exploited to Build the Technology of War,” The New Republic. https://newrepublic.com/article/179391/wheelchair-warfare-pipeline-disability-technology
Jaffee, L. & Sheehi, L. 2024. “Disrupting Fixity: Palestine as Central to Decolonial Disability Justice”
Session #6: 9.3.2026, 4pm-6.30pm: Dreaming / Making Access
Selected Readings:
Taylor, S. (2024). Disabled ecologies: Lessons from a wounded desert. Univ of California Press. Chapter: Environmentalism of the Injured.
Principles of Disability Justice as outlined by the Sins Invalid collective: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/690824/pdf
Additional Resources:
Piepzna-Samarasinha, L. L. (2018) Care Work, Dreaming Disability Justice. arsenal pulp press.
Interview with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Cyree Jarelle Johnson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UpQVlT2wCQ&t=35s (particularly the conversation from around 45mins onwards)
Colligan, Sumi & Jaysane-Darr, Anna (2025) The Disabled Anthropologist. Routledge. Chapter 5 Reimagining Ethnographic Research for Collective Access through (Crip) Collaboration. p.96-116
Session #7: 13.4.2026: tba