Becoming the Supercrip: Disability, Heroism, and the Necessity of Grief

• In Event: Politics and the MCU: Foundings and Backlashes, Ableism and Disabilities

Brief Overview

I contend that their embodiments of Supercripdom produce dual narratives in which mental illness and trauma are potential sources of empowerment, while also perpetuating the harmful narrative that grief is a necessity of disabled experience.

Author

• Anna Daily, University of Colorado Boulder