Weaving an Interdependent Community: Disability Justice as a Curricular Cripistemology

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-21-2026

Abstract

This article situates interdependence as foundational to curricular cripistemology. It examines how students decode and negotiate notions of individualism, productivity, and interdependence through artistic practice grounded in dis/ability, skills, and needs by centering collective responsibility, communal care, and mutual aid. It analyzes instructor and student reflections, identifying insights and implications for enacting interdependence as a communal artistic practice. It argues that centering interdependence through creative curricular cripistemology, although not without conflict, offers learners across dis/ability a model of communal support valuing difference. - Excerpt

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