Abstract: In this seminar Viji Kuppan draws from previous writing presented in the book, The Fire Now (Johnson et al, 2018), Crippin’ Blackness: Narratives of Disabled People of Colour from Slavery to Trump, and a forthcoming piece, entitled, Black Crip Killjoys: Dissident Voices and Neglected Stories from the Margins to speak to entangled racialized, disabled and gendered alterity in neoliberal times. To understand these complex moments and situations of multiple and simultaneous oppression Viji will interrogate social and cultural life in its spectacular (including spectacularly violent), and many mundane forms. In so doing Viji situates the often silenced and erased Black and Brown Crip body as experiencing debility (Puar, 2017) long before and rather than (if ever) it is hailed as being disabled.

Bio: Viji Kuppan is currently completing his PhD at Leeds Beckett University in the Centre for Social Justice in Sport and Society. His thesis examines the complex, contingent and contradictory experiences of Black, Brown and White disabled football fans. His activism, scholarship and teaching are primarily concerned with sport, leisure and popular culture, where he interrogates these formations through the structures of race, disability, gender and their entanglements.