Hamraie, A. and Fritsch, K. (2019) ‘Crip Technoscience Manifesto’, Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 5(1), pp. 1–34.



Hamraie and Fritsch propose crip technoscience as a practice of critique, alteration and reinvention of the material-discursive world. The iconic idea is disabled people as designers of everyday life. Disability is not a deficit waiting for cure, normalization or technological correction; it is a generative site of knowledge, hacking, world-building and political imagination. The manifesto refuses the demand that bodies justify existence through independence, productivity or assimilation into able-bodied norms. Technologies, architectures and infrastructures are not neutral. They are often designed without treating disability as a difference that matters. Crip technoscience responds by centering disabled expertise, access-making, collective care, interdependence and critical design. It draws from feminist technoscience, crip theory, anti-racist praxis and disability justice to show that science and technology are not inherently oppressive, nor automatically liberating. They are fields of struggle. Disabled people appropriate, redesign and politicize technoscience to make worlds otherwise. The manifesto’s importance lies in turning access from accommodation into epistemology. Access is not an afterthought added to design; it is a method for remaking relations, spaces and futures.