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CTRL+ALT+CRIP is a printed
and digital magazine about disability,
design, art, and technology,
and the intersection of embodied
and situated knowledge.
Accessible. Simple.
Easy to understand.
This is not a new beginning.
This is a reclaim, a rewriting.
This is not just inclusion,
but world-making.
Not aesthetic spectacle,
but tangible reality.
This is the crip worldview:
it confronts, it questions,
it builds, it dismantles.
It evolves. Again and again.
A magazine where disability
does not appear as a theme,
but as a starting point
and a shared experience.
Design is not decoration.
It is social, cultural, ethical,
and a knowledge-shaping practice.
Crip is not a provocation,
but a position.
It doesn’t just strive or survive.
It shapes, resists, and proposes.
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What does “crip” mean?
The word “crip” used to be a slur.
It meant “lame” or “cripple.”
Many disabled people have
reclaimed this word,
giving it new meaning.
Today, its meaning has changed.
“Crip” is a perspective —
one that many proudly claim.
The crip perspective means:
– we have our own experiences,
– we have knowledge,
– we stand up for ourselves,
– we see the world differently.
“Crip” can also mean deviation, divergence,
or a twisting — as in “to cripple” something:
to bend it, to shift it out of the norm.
This makes “crip” a critical practice,
a way of bending and twisting
normative order,
and opening up new possibilities.
The following quotes are from disabled people,
sharing what ‘crip’ means to them.
Emma Sheppard,
Necessary pleasures of the crip killjoy (2025)
“Crip is not about normalising disability but exposing
and undoing normal.”
Robert McRuer,
Crip Theory (2006)
“The disability to come . . . will and should always belong to the time of the promise. . . It’s a crip promise that we will always comprehend disability otherwise and that we will, collectively, somehow access other worlds and futures.”
Aimi Hamraie & Kelly Fritsch,
Crip Technoscience Manifesto (2019)
“Crip technoscience centers the work of disabled people as knowers and makers.
It privileges disabled people as designers and world-builders, recognizing their knowledge of what will work best and fostering the development of the skills, capacities, and relationships needed to create from that knowledge.”