4Disability Studies

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Abstract This review of disability studies literature centers on two anthologies published in 2023: Crip Authorship: Disability as Method, edited by Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez, and Crip Genealogies, edited by Mel Y. Chen, Alison Kafer, Eunjung Kim, and Julie Avril Minich. As anthologies, these two publications critically consider collaboration as an organizing principle of disability studies scholarship, disability culture, and disability justice in theory and praxis. When considering Crip Authorship and Crip Genealogies in conversation against the personal and/as political backdrop of 2023 and early 2024, three areas of collaboration emerge as sites to understand the state of field within larger academic institutional structures. First, the collaborative continued engagement with Chris Bell’s (2006) critique of white disability studies by disability studies scholars working to question the aims of the field of disability studies and introduce more concrete decolonial practices to research and writing. Second, the kind of collaboration needed to produce disability studies scholarship and the ways in which scholars collaborate as research, method, and writing practice to do disability studies in theory and practice. And third, the past, present, and ongoing collaborations around ‘crip’ as a theoretical practice, keyword, and organizing term.