Publishing Thoughts from the Bed Sorbonne: Toward A Crip Publishing Manifestx

Ela Przybyło

doi:10.17742/IMAGE29734

Authors

Ela Przybyło Illinois State University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1502-2953

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17742/IMAGE29734

Abstract

In this piece I draw on my experiences as a neuroqueer editor of the peer-reviewed, intersectional, and intermedia independent journal Feral Feminisms and on disability justice to hone a short manifestx on crip publishing. While peer-reviewed journals often demand free, invisible, and feminized labor along with high-speed efficiency, I imagine crip approaches to publishing as necessitating such principles as slowness, anti-fascism, recognition, care, failure, multiple mediums for knowledge-making, and community building. The piece begins with a reflection from the “Bed Sorbonne” or academic’s bed office, and moves into a consideration of how thinking sustainable publishing with lichen can enliven our publishing praxes. Finally, I outline the nine part manifestx as a starting point for imagining crip informed publication models. The hybrid and art-based piece engages with the theme of sustainable publishing by thinking about how to make publishing sustainable—as in doable, feasible, possible, limitless— both for crip authors/creators and crip journal editors.

Author Biography

Ela Przybyło, Illinois State University

Ela Przybyło is Associate Professor in English and core faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Illinois State University. Author of Asexual Erotics: Intimate Readings of Compulsory Sexuality (2019) and Ungendering Menstruation (2025), as well as an editor of On the Politics of Ugliness (2018), Ela is a founding and managing editor of the peer-reviewed, open access journal Feral Feminisms and a practicing artist, working in photography.

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