Petra Kuppers: How to go on a crip drift

Petra Kuppers (she/her) is a disability culture activist and a community performance artist. Shegrounds herself in disability culture methods, and uses somatics, performance, media work, andspeculative writing to engage audiences toward more socially just and enjoyable futures. In thesepandemic years, she’s been engaged in crip drifts: working with human and more-than-humanothers outdoors (or through dream journeys online), exploring interdependence, listening, being-with, and complex joy. Her latest academic study is Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters(University of Minnesota Press, 2022, open access). Her fourth poetry collection, Diver Beneaththe Street, investigates true crime and ecopoetry at the level of the soil (Wayne State UniversityPress, February 2024). She teaches at the University of Michigan, and is a 2023 GuggenheimFellow. www.petrakuppers.com https://wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814351116/diver-beneath-the-street/ https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/eco-soma More on Eva Yaa Asantewaa's InfiniteBody blog here.