Disability Studies Quarterly | 卷:39 |
Chronic Pain as Fluid, BDSM as Control | |
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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