Mel Y. Chen: Crip Genealogies yarliallison from mugshots to celebrated icons

from mugshots to celebrated icons of photojournalism

Accompanying the artist’s first retrospective

tragic martyrs

both past and present

Mel Y. Chen: Crip Genealogies yarliallison from mugshots to celebrated iconsDuke University Press, 2023, softcover, 384 pages, 15. 2 x 22. 8 cm The contributors to Crip Genealogies reorient the field of disability studies by centering the work of transnational feminism, queer of color critique, and trans scholarship and activism. They challenge the white, Western, and Northern rights based genealogy of disability studies, showing how a single coherent narrative of the field is a mode of exclusion that relies on logics of