Reviews - Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid

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Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid

Shayda Kafai

4.15 AVERAGE

rhysdb's review

4.0

hopeful informative medium-paced

elliek52611's review

5.0

hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

disabledbookdragon's review

3.0

hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

I'm not familiar with Sins Invalid previously to reading this (it sounds awesome), so some of this is definitely lost on me. It's the main subject for this collection, though disability studies and experiences are also more generally discussed.
The different chapters circled the same themes and topics, meaning they felt repetitive and not in a 'building on each other' way.
The arguments weren't anything I hadn't read before and I wish there had been more care spent crafting this book to have a particular point of view and trajectory to push the reader through the chapters. It just plodded on and the repetitiveness made it much less compelling and fresh than other collections I've read on similar topics.
More of the people involved in SI and less of the rehashed theory would have helped me get more out of this book. A couple essays stood out more than the rest, but I think that looking back on this one at the end of the year, I won't really remember it.