Cripping Sport and Physical Activity: An Intersectional Approach to Gender and Disability

ABSTRACT

The objective of this article is to propose an intersectional approach to gender and disability in sport. Starting from the postulate that the production of gender and disability-related norms is based on similar social logics, we will first show how these normative systems intersect in the field of sport and participate in the construction of heteronormative and ableist patterns. Then, we will rely on crip theory to understand to what extent it is possible to consider sport and physical activity as opportunities to question these normative systems. In this way, we will defend the idea that sport and physical activity can support alternative experiences and visibility for disabled people and thus promote diversity.

KEYWORDS:

• Sport and physical activity
• disability
• intersectionality
• gender
• ableism

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Notes

1. https://www.sinsinvalid.org/about-us.

2. https://amongestedefendant.wordpress.com/performances/.

3. https://amongestedefendant.wordpress.com/2020/12/07/les-corps-exposes/.

4. literally ‘Locker rooms’ in English.