In this creative nonfiction essay, the author reflects on how 'crip time' has operated in their life, not only as a form of liberation, but also as a site of loss and alienation.
This introduction connects the temporal regimes that disabled people and communities negotiate with the universalization of “crip time” during the COVID-19 pandemic, in full swing at the time of this writing. It discusses the articles and artwork in this special issue in terms of how they express the temporalities lived by disabled subjects both as confining and, potentially, as means of critiquing and transforming the time discipline of late-stage capitalism.
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