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Cripping Girlhood

Anastasia Todd
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Cripping Girlhood offers a new theorization of disabled girlhood, tracing how and why representations of disabled girls emerge with frequency in twenty-first century U.S. media culture. It uncovers how the exceptional figure of the disabled girl most often appears as a resource to work through post-Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) anxieties about the family, healthcare, labor, citizenship, and the precarity of the bodymind. In paying critical attention to disabled girlhood, the book uses feminist disability studies to rupture the unwitting assumption in girls' studies that girlhood is necessarily non-disabled. 

By closely examining the ways that disabled girls represent themselves, Anastasia Todd goes beyond a critique of the figure of the privileged, disabled girl subject in the national imagination to explore how disabled girls circulate their own capacious re-envisioning of what it means to be a disabled girl. In analyzing a range of cultural sites, including YouTube, TikTok, documentaries, and GoFundMe campaigns, Todd shows how disabled girls actively upend what we think we know about them and their experience, recasting the meanings ascribed to their bodyminds in their own terms.  By analyzing disabled girls' self-representational practices and cultural productions, Todd shows how disabled girls deftly theorize their experiences of ableism, sexism, racism, and ageism, and cultivate communities online, creating archives of disability knowledge and politicizing other disabled people in the process. 
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  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • One. The Futurity of Disabled Girlhood
  • Two. From Disabled Girlhood 2.0 to the “Crip-fluencer”
  • Three. Domesticating Disability
  • Four. Crip Afterlife of Jerika Bolen
  • Coda
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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Published: 2024
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license
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  • 978-0-472-90442-6 (open access)
  • 978-0-472-05674-3 (paper)
  • 978-0-472-07674-1 (hardcover)
Series
  • Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
Subject
  • Media Studies:New Media
  • Gender Studies:Gay and Lesbian Studies
  • Gender Studies:Women's Studies
  • Disability Studies

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On the left is a young girl with blonde pigtails standing and holding on to a walker. An adult is holding the back of the walker. On the right is a close up of the young girl’s legs, the left leg is twisted over the right leg.

Screenshot of Delaney, Miss You Can Do It

From Chapter 1

Figure 1. Delaney using a gait trainer (Miss You Can Do It 2013)

Four young children, all wearing knitted hats and thick winter coats, sit on a bench against a brick wall eating cookies.

Screenshot of Alina, Miss You Can Do It

From Chapter 1

Figure 2. Alina in Ukrainian orphanage (Miss You Can Do It 2013)

Screenshot of YouTube homepage with thumbnails of Charisse’s videos.

Screenshot of Charisse Living with Cerebral Palsy's YouTube Channel

From Chapter 2

Figure 3. Charisse Living with Cerebral Palsy’s YouTube Channel

Screenshot of Rikki Poynter’s homepage with thumbnails of Rikki’s videos.

Screenshot of Rikki Poynter's YouTube channel

From Chapter 2

Figure 4. Rikki Poynter’s YouTube Channel

Rikki is in the center of the frame wearing a black baseball cap with the words “Pika Pika” in gold. She is signing.

Screenshot of Rikki Poynter, YouTube 2016

From Chapter 2

Figure 5. Rikki Poynter in her YouTube video, Learning Sign Language as a Deaf Adult (2016)

Charisse is holding onto her dog’s leash, and they are both running away from the camera.

Screenshot of Charisse Living with Cerebral Palsy, YouTube 2010

From Chapter 2

Figure 6. Charisse in her YouTube video, Walking & running with Cerebral Palsy (2010)

Charisse sits in the center of the frame in front of two patchwork quilts.

Screenshot of Charisse Living with Cerebral Palsy, YouTube 2012

From Chapter 2

Figure 7. Charisse in her YouTube video, Charisse’s Story—My Life Journey with Cerebral Palsy (2012)

Rikki Poynter sits in front of bed with “DEAF” written on a pink post-­it stuck to her head.

Screenshot of Rikki Poynter, YouTube 2014

From Chapter 2

Figure 8. Rikki Poynter in her YouTube video, Shit Hearing People Say (Things You Don’t Say to Deaf & Hard of Hearing) (2014)

One example of Rikki Poynter’s merch: a gray, short sleeved graphic t-­shirt with “No More Craptions” written in rainbow colors.

Screenshot of Rikki Poynter #nomorecraptions merch

From Chapter 2

Figure 9. An LGBT No More Craptions t-shirt from Rikki Poynter’s merch store

Charisse walks away from the camera with her leg brace visible. The text on the image reads, “Throughout my childhood others made me believe that being different was a horrible thing. But as I got older I realized you have to be different to make a difference in this world.”

Screenshot of Charisse Living with Cerebral Palsy, YouTube 2020

From Chapter 2

Figure 10. Charisse in her YouTube video, 10 Years of Becoming Beautifully Different—Bullied Then Becoming an Inspiration (2020)

Bella holds onto George’s harness as they walk across the stage with her parents to receive George’s award.

Screenshot of George and Bella, AKC awards

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Figure 11. The service dog George, Bella, and her parents at the AKC Humane Fund Awards for Canine Excellence from George (Great Dane)-2015 AKC Humane Fund Awards for Canine Excellence (2016)

Rosie and Claire embrace, sitting on the ground in the aisle of a warehouse store. The image has text that reads, “It’ll be okay.”

Screenshot of Claire and Rosie, TikTok 2021

From Chapter 3

Figure 12. Claire and Rosie, her service dog, in her TikTok video, “She’s my yellow . . .” (2021)

Claire dyes Rosie’s tail rainbow colors.

Screenshot of Rosie the service dog, TikTok 2021

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Figure 13. Rosie’s tail being dyed in TikTok video, “Why Rosie’s tail is Dyed! . . .” (2021)

Lexy embraces Lady’s head. The image has text that reads, “Meet my service dog Lady who only humps and kisses girl dogs (when she’s not working) . . . rainbow flag emoji, hand over mouth emoji, rainbow flag emoji.”

Screenshot of Lexy and Lady, TikTok 2021, 1

From Chapter 3

Figure 14. Lexy and Lady, her service dog, in her TikTok video, “Pretty sure she’s a lesbian also . . .” (2021)

Lexy holding and kissing the top of Lady’s head. The image has text that reads, “Mom, why do you advocate so hard for my breed and breeds like mine and strive to make sure we don’t mess up in front of others as a SD team?”

Screenshot of Lexy and Lady, TikTok 2021, 2

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Figure 15. Lexy and Lady in her TikTok video, “#greenscreen #greenscreenvideo yes I know . . .” (2021)

Lady, a gray, pit bull-­type dog. The image has text that reads, “When someone tells me my new service dog is fake because her breed and that im not disabled.”

Screenshot of Lady the service dog, TikTok 2021

From Chapter 3

Figure 16. Lady, Lexy’s service dog, in her TikTok video, “we had to put my other . . .” (2021)

On the left there is an image of Jerika holding her dog. On the right there are details about the campaign.

Screenshot of J's Last Dance, GoFundMe Campaign

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Figure 17. “J’s Last Dance,” Jen Bolen’s GoFundMe campaign

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