This panel delves into the exploration of 'Crip Time', drawing on the work of disability and feminist scholar Alison Kafer in her work Feminist, Queer, Crip. We also turn to Robert McRuer’s understanding of “crip excess,” Amber Musser’s use of “sensual excess,” and Nicole Fleetwood’s analysis of “excess flesh” to explore how bodies exceed their text in late stage capitalism. This panel examines temporality and its impact on our comprehension of bodies signified as surplus within the realms of Crip, Queer, and Disability Justice theories. We're interested in uncovering the multifaceted intersections of temporality, spatiality, and corporeality, with an emphasis on ways that race, gender, sexuality, and class are understood through notions of surplus.

Our discourse invites critical analysis of film, literature, and unconventional narrative forms that encapsulate the representation of surplus value as it relates to the body. Our aim is to cultivate a dynamic conversation around the concept of surplus—its dual role as a form of resistance and as a mechanism of control—and how it influences physical bodies, especially those marginalized due to race, class, and ability. We're particularly interested in understanding how non-productive time, unlinked to labor, relates to bodies and why non-productive uses of time are tied to marginalized bodies.

What does it mean when bodies become defined by surplus? How does this label, often used to devalue or dehumanize, become a site of identity, resistance, and even celebration within Crip and Queer theory? And how does the concept of invisibility tie into these notions of excess? The panel intends to address these pressing questions, weaving a discourse around the forms of activism that arise from the resistance to compulsory ability. We invite scholarship examining literature, film and non-traditional forms of narrative from any time period and geographic location.