crip

plural crips

1. offensiveA cripple.

   Alan nodded. "Buster. He's parked in the crip space again. I told him last time I was through warning him about it."

   1991, Stephen King, Needful Things

2. reclaimed; generally self-referential; reclaimed; generally self-referentialA person with a disability.

present singular third person crips · participle present cripping · participle past cripped · past cripped

1. danceTo do a Crip Walk.
2. disability studiesTo apply a disability justice perspective to something.

   In approaching the ISA negatively, we can begin to crip the ways in which it conceptualizes disability, gesturing towards the nonidentical that is concealed through identity and opening up space for the recognition of differences that this putatively universal symbol obfuscates.

   2013, Kelly Fritsch, “On the Negative Possibility of Suffering: Adorno, Feminist Philosophy, and the Transfigured Crip To Come”, in Disability Studies Quarterly, volume 33, number 4

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   In performance, the artists under discussion sometimes use queering and cripping against one another; they “queer the crip” and “crip the queer.” That is, queering critiques and expands notions of what it means to be crippled, and cripping critiques and expands notions of what it means to be queer.

   2003, Carrie Sandahl, “Queering the Crip of Cripping the Queer? Intersections of Queer and Crip Identities in Solo Autobiographical Performance”, in QLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, volume 9, numbers 1–2, →DOI, page 37

plural Crips · alternative Internet ♿

1. A member of Crips, a violent Los Angeles criminal gang who typically wear blue and have an intense and bitter rivalry with the Bloods.

   My union with the neighborhood kids teaches me Bloods don't say or write words starting with c's. This is how Bloods disrespect Crips. They replace all c's with k's or b's and cross out all remaining c's in the word.

   2009, DaShaun "Jiwe" Morris, War of the Bloods in My Veins