Crip/Queer Performance: A Dialogue with Margrit Shildrick and Robert McRuer

Abstract

This conversation brings up questions about the problematic nature of the terms global, local and ‘authenticity’.1 It engages with ideas of the translocal; neoliberalism and discourses of austerity and gentrification; of HIV and AIDS; and mourning, yearning and nostalgia. It notes the temporalisation in queer discourses that involves queer looking backward and forward, and pivots on the ideas of domesticating or ‘de-fanging’ (in Margrit’s terms) crip/queer performance if/when it becomes ‘successful’ (that is, enters a mainstream).