Crip Theory

An academic and activist framework that reclaims "crip" as a positive identity term, challenging normative assumptions about disability, ability, and bodily difference. Emerging from queer theory and disability studies, crip theory questions compulsory able-bodiedness and examines how disability intersects with other marginalized identities. In technology contexts, "crip technoscience" applies these critical perspectives to examine how disabled people create, adapt, and resist technologies designed around normative bodies.