Jess Whatcott
Biographic Data
| ID | 216347 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jess Whatcott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jess |
| FAMILY NAME | Whatcott |
| SIGNATURE | WHATCOTT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Diego State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5243-3233 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Crip Silences, Crip Futurities, Crip Joy
Delores Phillips and Cultural Studies Association’s Crip Cultures/Critical Disability Studies Working Group Co-Host Theodora Danylevich discuss crip silences, crip futurities, and crip joy with authors Alyson Patsavas (University of Illinois, Chicago), Alyson K. Spurgas (Trinity College), and Jess Whatcott (San Diego State University). This podcast is accompanied by a scholarly commentary by Angela Carter
Critical Disability Studies at American Studies Association, 3–6 November 2022, Hilton New Orleans Riverside, New Orleans
Crip Collectivity Beyond Neoliberalism in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower
The importance of Octavia Butler’s 1993 novel Parable of the Sower continues to crystalize, as Butler’s prescient imagining of urban California torn apart by neoliberal divestment comes to fruition. Following in the space opened up by Black feminist scholarship on Butler, the present essay examines her relevance beyond literary and cultural studies. I argue that Parable is a Black feminist crip theorization of political economy that diagnoses the…
Aiding and abetting the unruly past
This article offers a strategy for applying queer and critical disability theory to American political development (APD). Queer and critical disability theorists deconstruct the use of biological categories to organize human life. Both theories argue that difference is not immanent to the body, but, rather, humans are racialized, gendered, disabled, and made different through social processes for the purpose of legitimating differential treatment…
No Selves to Consent
In 2013, the California State Legislature investigated the reproductive sterilization of at least 144 people in women’s prisons between 2006 and 2010. Responding to what were understood to be illegal sterilization surgeries, state agencies, such as the state auditor, proposed enforcing and strengthening informed consent laws. Activists, however, publicly doubted that noncoercive consent within prisons is possible. This article examines the ways i…
Aiding and abetting the unruly past
This article offers a strategy for applying queer and critical disability theory to American political development (APD). Queer and critical disability theorists deconstruct the use of biological categories to organize human life. Both theories argue that difference is not immanent to the body, but, rather, humans are racialized, gendered, disabled, and made different through social processes for the purpose of legitimating differential treatment…
No Selves to Consent
In 2013, the California State Legislature investigated the reproductive sterilization of at least 144 people in women’s prisons between 2006 and 2010. Responding to what were understood to be illegal sterilization surgeries, state agencies, such as the state auditor, proposed enforcing and strengthening informed consent laws. Activists, however, publicly doubted that noncoercive consent within prisons is possible. This article examines the ways i…
No Selves to Consent
In 2013, the California State Legislature investigated the reproductive sterilization of at least 144 people in women’s prisons between 2006 and 2010. Responding to what were understood to be illegal sterilization surgeries, state agencies, such as the state auditor, proposed enforcing and strengthening informed consent laws. Activists, however, publicly doubted that noncoercive consent within prisons is possible. This article examines the ways i…
Crip Collectivity Beyond Neoliberalism in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower
The importance of Octavia Butler’s 1993 novel Parable of the Sower continues to crystalize, as Butler’s prescient imagining of urban California torn apart by neoliberal divestment comes to fruition. Following in the space opened up by Black feminist scholarship on Butler, the present essay examines her relevance beyond literary and cultural studies. I argue that Parable is a Black feminist crip theorization of political economy that diagnoses the…
Aiding and abetting the unruly past
This article offers a strategy for applying queer and critical disability theory to American political development (APD). Queer and critical disability theorists deconstruct the use of biological categories to organize human life. Both theories argue that difference is not immanent to the body, but, rather, humans are racialized, gendered, disabled, and made different through social processes for the purpose of legitimating differential treatment…
Critical Disability Studies at American Studies Association, 3–6 November 2022, Hilton New Orleans Riverside, New Orleans
Crip Silences, Crip Futurities, Crip Joy
Delores Phillips and Cultural Studies Association’s Crip Cultures/Critical Disability Studies Working Group Co-Host Theodora Danylevich discuss crip silences, crip futurities, and crip joy with authors Alyson Patsavas (University of Illinois, Chicago), Alyson K. Spurgas (Trinity College), and Jess Whatcott (San Diego State University). This podcast is accompanied by a scholarly commentary by Angela Carter
Disability Rights and Representation (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Adoration (1 works) · Alexander von Humboldt Studies (1 works) · Biopower (1 works)