Necessary pleasures of the crip killjoy

2025/04/24 by Emma Sheppard · 2 voices · 1 citation
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Psychology · #Aesthetics #Agricultural pest management studies #Art #Psychoanalysis #Psychology #Sociology

paper · doi:10.1177/14647001251334088

published in Feminist Theory 27(3), 332-349 (SAGE Publishing)

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Abstract

In this article, I theorise the relationships between the crip killjoy, joy and refusal. I argue why I think violence is an inherent part of crip, and there is killjoy work in finding ways to accept violence (as a neutral position). I argue that the crip killjoy does discomforting work, making everyone uncomfortable, but that there is a joy in discomfort and violence – influenced by queer notions of jouissance. I then argue that this rejection – and the finding of joy in rejection – is a necessity in building queer-crip futures.

Discussions

• Lads, I am very rubbish at posting here, but: I wrote a thing, and it is now out with Feminist Theory. doi.org/10.1177/1464... - it's called The Necessary Pleasures of the Crip Killjoy and it's about [bsky, 68 points, 9 comments]
• when I was overwhelmed with brain fog last week, one of the articles I wasn't able to read was @emmas.bsky.social 's 'Necessary pleasures of the crip killjoy'. I have now devoured it with no small amo [bsky, 4 points, 1 comments]

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