Hi all: The Critical Disability Studies Caucus of the American Studies Association invites submissions for a caucus sponsored panel for the 2023 meeting in Montreal, Canada November 2-5, 2023. Cripping Solidarity: Love in Private, Public, and Everywhere In Between This year’s ASA invites a consideration of solidarity as “what love looks like in public.” The Critical Disability Studies Caucus insists that critical disability and crip approaches trouble our very conceptions of “solidarity,” “love,” and “publicness.” Such troubling emerges in crip, mad, and disabled theory and activism. Mia Mingus, Alice Wong, and Sandy Ho insist that “access is love,” and much of this access intimacy takes the form of small moments of quotidian care that may not be publicly visible. Similarly, Akemi Nishida, Johanna Hedva, and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha frame the “private” space of the bed as a critical activist site. Parallel to the neoliberal consumerism of “self-care,” some forms of self-care, Sami Schalk and Jina Kim reveal, have resistant crip roots. Together, this work insists that disability justice lenses require an interrogation of public/private divides and existing conceptualizations of political action. Refusing exceptionalism--whether that of the super crip, ablenationalist disability exceptionalism, or American exceptionalism--means refusing narratives that resistance only occurs in exceptional moments of publicly expressed solidarity. This panel invites paper presentations that take up some of the below questions or in other ways rethink the relations between love, public/private divides, and solidarity/coalition in conversation with critical disability lenses: - When so much access work is rendered as a public spectacle, what can we learn by lingering with small, intimate moments of solidarity and care? - How do quotidian moments of solidarity transform how we understand disability as a category of analysis or identity? - How might we crip solidarity as an act of access and thus as an act of love? - How do overlapping pandemics trouble or reframe public acts of solidarity? What does solidarity look like (feel like, smell like, etc) in pandemic times? - Are there limits of crip solidarity? Do we need love to act in solidarity or coalition? - What kinds of solidarities and coalitions help us reimagine the bounds of disability politics? If you are interested, please email Jess ( jwhatcott@sdsu.edu) and Sarah ( orsak@virginia.edu) as soon as possible with your intent to submit an abstract. By *January 25*, send a full proposal consisting of: - Paper title (maximum of 15 words per title) - Paper abstract (maximum of 500 words per abstract) - A 350-word (or less) biographical statement <https://theasa.net/example-biographical-statement> We will get back to you before the conference submission deadline of February 1st. Alternatively, consider organizing your own panel following Lydia Brown’s suggestion for a focus on “crip care and disability justice during the continuing pandemic.” We are excited by the possibility of an abundance of critical disability conversations at ASA! In Solidarity, Meghann O’Leary Jess Whatcott Theodora Danylevich Sarah Orsak Tanja Aho