Crip Time
Full Tuition: $300 — Scholarship options are available in the drop-down enrollment menu for you to self-select.
Instructor: Madden | 5-weeks | Tuesdays | October 10 - November 14 (no class 10/31) | 6:00 - 8:00 PM ET | ONLINE
Disability doesn’t go by the clock, as disabled people well know. “Crip time,” as defined by Alison Kafer, is a reorientation to time. Its opposite is “curative time,” where the only acceptable or imaginable future for a disabled person is one characterized by rehabilitation, normalization, and cure. But what about those bodies and minds that are unable or unwilling? What is lost when the only collective understanding we have of disability is one that cannot imagine anything other than intervention, and then “casts disabled people (as) out of time, or as obstacles to the arc of progress”?
Kafer brings disability studies into theoretical discussions about time, the future, and progress, and our class will center her work—both recently published materials and excerpts from the seminal Feminist, Queer, Crip. She helps readers notice how our collective ideas about “the future” and “the good life” regularly serve compulsory able-bodiedness and able-mindedness, and she supports us to imagine otherwise. Our class will begin with an introduction to the key terms and commitments of disability justice. During the remaining four weeks, we’ll study theories of crip time, including those that reveal how nationalism and ableism are wrapped up together, and those that resist normative timelines of progress that say the only disabled people deserving of education are those that can and will be employed. We’ll read materials by Patricia Berne, Leroy Moore, Mel Chen, José Esteban Muñoz, Jasbir Puar, Eunjung Kim, and more.
Classes are recorded to allow for students to participate asynchronously. If you want to take a class but cannot make the class time, sign up for the asynchronous audit option to follow along on your own. Recordings are password protected and will only be available for the duration of the class and two weeks after it ends.
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Night School Bar pays instructors and staff a living wage, and your tuition goes toward supporting this practice. Please pick the payment tier that corresponds to your needs, and consider our commitment to fair labor practices when doing so. We will never request or require proof of need, and do not use an income-based sliding scale; we trust you to decide what payment tier is right for you. If you would like additional support deciding or would like to learn more about the practice of using a sliding scale, we recommend this resource from Embracing Equity.
We are currently able to offer three full scholarships per class, and one full scholarship per person per term. If the scholarship tier you need is sold out or you would like to pay tuition on an installment basis, please email us directly, and we will work with you.
If at any point up to 48 hours before your first class session you realize you will be unable to take the class, please email us and we will reallocate your funds to a future class, to another student’s scholarship, or refund it. After that point, we are able to offer 50% refunds.
Full Tuition: $300 — Scholarship options are available in the drop-down enrollment menu for you to self-select.
Instructor: Madden | 5-weeks | Tuesdays | October 10 - November 14 (no class 10/31) | 6:00 - 8:00 PM ET | ONLINE
Disability doesn’t go by the clock, as disabled people well know. “Crip time,” as defined by Alison Kafer, is a reorientation to time. Its opposite is “curative time,” where the only acceptable or imaginable future for a disabled person is one characterized by rehabilitation, normalization, and cure. But what about those bodies and minds that are unable or unwilling? What is lost when the only collective understanding we have of disability is one that cannot imagine anything other than intervention, and then “casts disabled people (as) out of time, or as obstacles to the arc of progress”?
Kafer brings disability studies into theoretical discussions about time, the future, and progress, and our class will center her work—both recently published materials and excerpts from the seminal Feminist, Queer, Crip. She helps readers notice how our collective ideas about “the future” and “the good life” regularly serve compulsory able-bodiedness and able-mindedness, and she supports us to imagine otherwise. Our class will begin with an introduction to the key terms and commitments of disability justice. During the remaining four weeks, we’ll study theories of crip time, including those that reveal how nationalism and ableism are wrapped up together, and those that resist normative timelines of progress that say the only disabled people deserving of education are those that can and will be employed. We’ll read materials by Patricia Berne, Leroy Moore, Mel Chen, José Esteban Muñoz, Jasbir Puar, Eunjung Kim, and more.
Classes are recorded to allow for students to participate asynchronously. If you want to take a class but cannot make the class time, sign up for the asynchronous audit option to follow along on your own. Recordings are password protected and will only be available for the duration of the class and two weeks after it ends.
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Night School Bar pays instructors and staff a living wage, and your tuition goes toward supporting this practice. Please pick the payment tier that corresponds to your needs, and consider our commitment to fair labor practices when doing so. We will never request or require proof of need, and do not use an income-based sliding scale; we trust you to decide what payment tier is right for you. If you would like additional support deciding or would like to learn more about the practice of using a sliding scale, we recommend this resource from Embracing Equity.
We are currently able to offer three full scholarships per class, and one full scholarship per person per term. If the scholarship tier you need is sold out or you would like to pay tuition on an installment basis, please email us directly, and we will work with you.
If at any point up to 48 hours before your first class session you realize you will be unable to take the class, please email us and we will reallocate your funds to a future class, to another student’s scholarship, or refund it. After that point, we are able to offer 50% refunds.
Full Tuition: $300 — Scholarship options are available in the drop-down enrollment menu for you to self-select.
Instructor: Madden | 5-weeks | Tuesdays | October 10 - November 14 (no class 10/31) | 6:00 - 8:00 PM ET | ONLINE
Disability doesn’t go by the clock, as disabled people well know. “Crip time,” as defined by Alison Kafer, is a reorientation to time. Its opposite is “curative time,” where the only acceptable or imaginable future for a disabled person is one characterized by rehabilitation, normalization, and cure. But what about those bodies and minds that are unable or unwilling? What is lost when the only collective understanding we have of disability is one that cannot imagine anything other than intervention, and then “casts disabled people (as) out of time, or as obstacles to the arc of progress”?
Kafer brings disability studies into theoretical discussions about time, the future, and progress, and our class will center her work—both recently published materials and excerpts from the seminal Feminist, Queer, Crip. She helps readers notice how our collective ideas about “the future” and “the good life” regularly serve compulsory able-bodiedness and able-mindedness, and she supports us to imagine otherwise. Our class will begin with an introduction to the key terms and commitments of disability justice. During the remaining four weeks, we’ll study theories of crip time, including those that reveal how nationalism and ableism are wrapped up together, and those that resist normative timelines of progress that say the only disabled people deserving of education are those that can and will be employed. We’ll read materials by Patricia Berne, Leroy Moore, Mel Chen, José Esteban Muñoz, Jasbir Puar, Eunjung Kim, and more.
Classes are recorded to allow for students to participate asynchronously. If you want to take a class but cannot make the class time, sign up for the asynchronous audit option to follow along on your own. Recordings are password protected and will only be available for the duration of the class and two weeks after it ends.
—
Night School Bar pays instructors and staff a living wage, and your tuition goes toward supporting this practice. Please pick the payment tier that corresponds to your needs, and consider our commitment to fair labor practices when doing so. We will never request or require proof of need, and do not use an income-based sliding scale; we trust you to decide what payment tier is right for you. If you would like additional support deciding or would like to learn more about the practice of using a sliding scale, we recommend this resource from Embracing Equity.
We are currently able to offer three full scholarships per class, and one full scholarship per person per term. If the scholarship tier you need is sold out or you would like to pay tuition on an installment basis, please email us directly, and we will work with you.
If at any point up to 48 hours before your first class session you realize you will be unable to take the class, please email us and we will reallocate your funds to a future class, to another student’s scholarship, or refund it. After that point, we are able to offer 50% refunds.