Find below a list of the meetings till the end of the Cripping Methodology RG - after which the Intersectional Neurodiversity and Disability Reading Groups project closes.

📣Announcement: the last meeting of the Intersectional Neurodiversity and Disability Reading Groups - currently running as the Cripping Methodology RG - will be December 2026. It has been and still is a wonderful experience. I also feel that I want to move to other types of projects now.

Our 113th meeting is: 15 May 2026 (note: 3-4.05pm UK) 🗣️ We'll discuss Stacy Clifford Simplican's (2017) "Feminist disability studies as methodology: Life-writing and the abled/disabled binary". Feminist Review, 115(1), pp.46–60.

Our 112th meeting is 24 Apr 2026, 3pm UK [4th Fri of April!]. We will tend to quantitative methods this time and will discuss: Blanchard, Aurélien, Blanchard, Enka, & Shew, Ashley. (2024). "404 Not Found: Quantitative methods in Disability Studies"

Quick note: we're starting 3.30pm UK today!! That's in about 30min. And we'll have a short meeting

This new DSQ's special issue on Mad Methods really fits with this month's Cripping Methodology reading group meeting (21 Feb) on Research ethics & knowledge production where we'll discuss LeFrançois & Voronka's "Mad epistemologies and maddening the ethics of knowledge production" >>>

You can read Emily’s article, “Internalizing Disability: If I Tell You, Will You See Me?” at the following link: cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cj... 2/2

Our 110th meeting is 20 Feb _ Topic: Research ethics & knowledge production _ Two readings (second is short): Reading 1: LeFrançois & Voronka "Mad epistemologies and maddening the ethics of knowledge production," In: Unravelling Research: The Ethics and Politics of Research in the Social Sciences

If you are involved in #DisabilityStudies we hope that you consider becoming a member of the Society for Disability Studies! Becoming a member and paying dues is an awesome way to support disability research and the advancement of Disability Studies in #HigherEd 1/6

Through an exploration of medical sociology, outdated models of disability, disability studies, and disability theories, Emily King reflects on the personal, educational, research, and pedagogical implications these have had for themself, as a Mad disabled critical disabilities scholar. 1/2

The Society for Disability Studies invites nominations for the 2026 SDS Awards, which recognize outstanding contributions to Disability Studies across scholarship, activism, mentorship, & creative practice Descriptions of all 9 awards: disstudies.org/nominate/ Nominations form: bit.ly/2026SDSAwards

This December the SDS is launching a membership drive! If you're in the field of #DisabilityStudies and looking for a community of researchers we hope you join us! Membership dues help sustain our flagship journal, Disability Studies Quarterly, which is SO important to the field! 1/6

1/2. 20 Feb 2026 is our 110th meeting with a chat about research ethics & knowledge production _ Text 1: LeFrançois & Voronka "Mad epistemologies and maddening the ethics of knowledge production," In Macías (Ed), Unravelling Research: The Ethics and Politics of Research in the Social Sciences

(1/2) The 1st meeting of the Cripping Methodology RG (109) is this Fri: - Minich, Julie Avril. (2016). "Enabling whom? Critical Disability Studies now". csalateral.org/issue/5-1/fo... _ Nusbaum, Emily A, & Lester, Jessica Nina. (2021). "Bodymind legibility and possibilities for qualitative research"

And if you're interested in Disability / Neurodiversity / Mad Studies and also methodology, have a look at the 2026 Cripping Methodology Reading Group starting Fri 16 Jan bsky.app/profile/ints... (not that in 2026 dates and times change a bit)

biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2025/12/02/s... Help us increase the accessibility of the upcoming sixth edition of the Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change conference series by contributing institutional funding/support!

Reminder: I will launch the results from my research into disabled people's encounters in #BlueBadge parking spaces in an online workshop on Fri 12 Dec, 12-1pm, on Teams with captions Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/20a4a6... #DisabilitySky #DisabilityStudies

The last Cripping Pedagogy Reading Group meeting (nr.108) is on 12 Dec 2025 [2nd Fri] _ Topic: Trigger warnings and teaching with trauma _ Reading: Carter, Angela M. (2015). "Teaching with trauma: Trigger warnings, feminism, and disability pedagogy". DSQ dsq-sds.org/index.php/ds...

On 21 Nov 2025, 3pm, we have our 107th meeting. We'll chat about Isabella Novsima's (2023) "Decolonizing ableist pedagogy: A communal work of delinking and crippling". International Review of Mission, 112(2), 267-282

Can anyone send this pub my way? It's Dec reading of the Cripping Methodology RG. Ta! Barry, Ben, Nesbitt, Philippa, & Strickfaden, Megan. (2024). "Multi-sensory methods: Toward a crip methodology in fashion studies". International Journal of Fashion Studies intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...

Today's text is one of the BEST texts I've read in the reading group - in all its 106 meetings. It's blowing my mind - in all the good ways!!!!

Two useful things popped up: 1. The CfP for the Leeds Disability Conf 2026 is up, DL 12 Nov. Reason - it's held 14-16 April this time! disability-studies.leeds.ac.uk/conference/c...

OK, the schedule for the 2026 Cripping Methodology Reading Group is up, with a few minor dates & times changes. Now I only have to finalise the reading list for 2026. I almost got all the readings, but keep it open a few more weeks for new suggestions! intersect-nd-dis-rg.wixsite.com/rg-site/read...

Open access version of Hannah Mason-Bish's (2025) monograph Disability, Gender, Bodies and Boundaries: How Disabled Women Experience Ableist Intrusions link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

For info: because the mailing list now has >500 addresses, will have to send them in two emails, over two days...

📚 👨‍🦼 🧠 🦮 📚 A reading list draft of the 2026 Cripping Methodology Reading Group is online! 🔗 Cripping Methodology Reading Group page: intersect-nd-dis-rg.wixsite.com/rg-site/read...

OK, the schedule for the 2026 Cripping Methodology Reading Group is up, with a few minor dates & times changes. Now I only have to finalise the reading list for 2026. I almost got all the readings, but keep it open a few more weeks for new suggestions! intersect-nd-dis-rg.wixsite.com/rg-site/read...

Our mailing list just passed its 500th membership!

Request: texts on quant methods, experiments etc. from a disability, crip, sick, mad, ND perspective (conducive for critical conversation) for the 2026 Cripping Methodology Reading Group's reading list @intsl-nd-dis-rgs.bsky.social Ta! (placeholder: intersect-nd-dis-rg.wixsite.com/rg-site/read...)

Our 106th meeting on 17 Oct 2025: • Topic: Transformative Anti-Ableist Pedagogy • Reading: Podlucká, Dušana. (2020). "Transformative Anti-Ableist Pedagogy for Social Justice". Outlines. Critical Practice Studies, 21(1), 69-97 core.ac.uk/reader/30490...

CALL FOR TEXTS: I'm asking your help to find texts for the 2026 Reading Group that help us to have conversations about 'Cripping Methodology' (working title). Can you fill in this form to give your suggestion(s)? (required: full reference / PDF) docs.google.com/forms/d/1bMW...

On 19 Sep 2025, we have our 105th meeting. We'll discuss Snyder et al's (2019) article: "Unlearning through Mad Studies: Disruptive pedagogical praxis" Find an OA version here: openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/23...

REQUEST: papers/chapters that offer a crip / disabled / neurodivergent / mad / sick perspective on, specifically, quantitative methodology - if intersectional even better! >>

On 19 Sep 2025, we have our 105th meeting. We'll discuss Snyder et al's (2019) article: "Unlearning through Mad Studies: Disruptive pedagogical praxis" Find an OA version here: openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/23...

CALL FOR TEXTS: I'm asking your help to find texts for the 2026 Reading Group that help us to have conversations about 'Cripping Methodology' (working title). Can you fill in this form to give your suggestion(s)? (required: full reference / PDF) docs.google.com/forms/d/1bMW...

Coming Fri 15 Aug we'll discuss 'Disability as a Teaching Method' - there's an OA version here: www.academia.edu/45043398/Cri...

If you publish in Disability, Mad, Neurodiversity and/or Sick Studies and you want to be accessible and make your pubs available to 'the pulbic', can you please upload a (pre-print) version of your pub on Researchgate and Academia so this public can access it? TYVM

I've not been keeping up with announcing RG meetings. Today's (2nd instead of 3rd Fri) is the 103th Cripping Pedagogy RG meeting: Sara Acevedo's (2021) "Lifelines: a neuroqueer politics of non-arrival in an undergraduate disability studies classroom" www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... (paywall)

Out next meeting - nr.100 ! - will be on 23 May (4th Fri!!!). We will discuss Broderick & Leonardo's (2015). "What a good boy. The deployment and distribution of 'goodness' as ideological property in schools"

And this is an important moment to address again that we in Disability and Neurodiversity Studies should boycott transphobic journal and scholars. Read here the boycott and why some of us boycott post-2018 publications from Disability & Society radssite.wordpress.com/2019/09/03/d...

STATEMENT: 'Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia' Read the statement online here: tinyurl.com/mud7va29 Co-sign the statement, fill in this form: forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...

The next meeting - Eco-Ability RG - is on Fri 2 May. We'll discuss Kelly Fritsch's (2017). "Toxic pregnancies: Speculative futures, disabling environments, and neoliberal biocapital" Open access PDF: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

A brief message: the Cripping Pedagogy RG of 16 May is moved to the 4th Fri 23 May Topic: Goodness as ideological property in schools

The next meeting (98) is on 18 Apr 2025 (Cripping Pedagogy RG): - Topic: ADHD hauntology in education - Reading: Rojas-Navarro, Alarcón-Arcos & Tabilo-Prieto (2024). "Spectralities of ADHD: hauntological diagnosis amidst agency, politics and pedagogies" - OA: www.researchgate.net/profile/Seba...

This Fri 4 Apr (Eco-Ability RG), we'll be chatting about 'Disabled women & sustainable development in Africa'. Text: Tsitsi Chataika. (2017). "Disabled Women, Urbanization and Sustainable Development in Africa"

For the upcoming Cripping Pedagogy RG meeting (nr.96): 21 Mar 2025, 3pm UK, we discuss Black Disability Studies Pedagogy: Reading: Dunhamn et al. (2015). "Developing and reflecting on a Black Disability Studies Pedagogy: Work from the National Black Disability Coalition" dsq-sds.org/article/view...

Hey all, I'm a bit under the weather so the meeting today will be a bit shorter: 3-4pm UK

Join us this Fri 7 Mar (3-4.30pm UK) for the 3rd meeting of the Eco-Ability RG (nr.95): - Topic: Language, mattering humans & disability - Reading: Chen, Mel Y. (2012). "Language and Mattering Humans [Chapter 1]". Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect (pp.21-55)

On 14 Mar the exhibition "Zines Forever! DIY Publications and Disability Justice" opens at the @wellcometrust.bsky.social (across Euston Station, London) - till 14 Sep. It's free, there's step-free access, and other access needs should be covered too wellcomecollection.org/exhibitions/...

This Friday we will read about and discuss 'internalised ableism in academia'. I'm sure we've lots to talk about!