Premium: An Introduction to Cripplepunk, Which Is Totally Different From And Exactly The Same As Every Other Online Social Justice Community
Blocked and Reported
Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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This week on the Primo edition of Blocked and Reported, Jesse explains the world of online disability activism, specfically Cripplepunk. Also discussed: MERDs, TURDs, and TERFs.
(Update: Shortly after we posted this, a listener wrote in to point out that one of the TikTok videos we played part of a…
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| 0:00.0 | Hi folks, Katie here. I'm the host of the podcast blocking reported along with my assistant |
| 0:05.4 | Jesse single. And what you're about to hear is a preview of our latest premium episode. |
| 0:10.8 | This is a fun one. It's about the world of disability activism or online disability |
| 0:15.7 | activism, I should say. Jesse interests us to some new terms. CripplePunk. Murd. Murds |
| 0:21.2 | are apparently the turf of the CripplePunk community. You're going to need to update your |
| 0:24.7 | vocabulary list after this. To listen to the entire episode, you can join us at Blocking |
| 0:29.6 | reported dot org. Where for just $5 a month, you get three extra episodes of the show every |
| 0:34.9 | month. Premos are the reason we can keep doing this show. So if you want to support the show, |
| 0:39.6 | please join us. Blocked and reported dot org. Today is a strange and random subject. What do |
| 0:45.0 | you know about disability rights culture online? Oh my gosh. It's crazy. Can I say that? |
| 0:52.2 | Can I use the is that the C word disability disability disability rights culture online? It's |
| 0:57.8 | much like fact activism culture. It's much like transact. It's very online and it can get very |
| 1:06.2 | what's the word I'm looking for? Like maybe focused on the small details or focused on microaggressions |
| 1:11.7 | instead of macro issues, systemic issues. It almost sounds like you're suggesting that the people |
| 1:18.4 | who spend the most time online are representative of the broader community they claim to speak for. |
| 1:22.8 | Am I am I putting words in your mouth? I mean, I would never go on the record and say that, |
| 1:26.6 | but yes. Okay. So this is not the record. So that's what you know about the online disability rights |
| 1:33.3 | movement. What do you know about cripple punk? Nothing. Are we allowed to use that term? |
| 1:38.0 | Well, we're going to. That's the name of the thing. Although that's one of the things that are |
| 1:42.4 | at issue here is whether we can use that that term. Okay. So to fully explain this movement, |
| 1:47.8 | I actually want to start with something Freddie DeBoer wrote last year in an essay called the |
| 1:51.6 | Gentrification of Disability. Do you remember this one? I do. Yeah. Was this published on |
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