Chronic Pain as Fluid, BDSM as Control

Disability Studies Quarterly

卷:39

Emma Sheppard¹ 

[1] City, University of London;

关键词: chronic pain;    BDSM;    sexuality;    disability;    crip;    cripistemology;    pain;   

DOI  :  10.18061/dsq.v39i2.6353

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The paper identifies how chronic pain is a disability and lays out the ways in which a cripistemology of chronic pain – and cripping chronic pain – is a productive exploration of pain. After exploring normative discourses of chronic pain through a crip lens, and identifying how pain is not meaningless, but instead imbued with multiple meanings, the paper presents some findings from a recent research project exploring the phenomenological experience of people living with chronic pain who engage in BDSM play. Two dual narratives are identified: pain as a contagious fluid, requiring control of pain and the emotional expression of pain, and the uses of BDSM in that control. The paper offers a crip reading of these non-normative experiences.

【 授权许可】

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