3Disability Studies

Abstract

This review of literature examines the disability-centered experiences of Covid-19 in disability studies scholarship published in 2021. Under such examination, four main points of synthesis emerge as ways to make sense of the first full year of disability studies scholarship in the pandemic. This chapter, then, proceeds in four sections. First, a focus on the primary methods used in the literature under review as forms of sense-making and conversation that radically engage with the present. Second, a consideration of the eruption of disability politics that emerged in the wake of mask-mandates throughout the United States of America. Third, an observation of the spaces throughout the pandemic in which crip culture served, or had the potential to serve, as an epistemology in changing a seemingly unfamiliar global landscape. Lastly, a movement through the calls to action made by and through the scholarship under review.