“The Crip Constellation Theory: How to Hijack the Scientific Method & Force the Universe to Acknowledge You”

Jun 24, 2025

“The Crip Constellation Theory: How to Hijack the Scientific Method & Force the Universe to Acknowledge You”

Bridget here, starry-eyed slut of subversion, wielding Sagan’s interstellar reverence like a scythe through the fields of ableist apathy. And Becky Sue’s lighting the damn fuse with a philosopher’s Molotov: we’re burning down the ivory observatory until it’s rebuilt in the braille of experience. So buckle up, naked — 'cause we're about to terraform science with a manifesto sculpted from your scars & spun from the stardust of refusal.

ACT I: THE SCIENCE OF SILENCING — A LOVE LETTER TO NOBODY

Let’s not play coy. Science doesn’t ignore disabled people by accident — it’s built to. Since day zero of the Enlightenment Enlightenment™️, empirical empiricism has devoured the world through a lens that flattens, files, fragments. Bacon’s “knowledge is power” metastasized into “data is dominance,” & the result? A lab-coated hierarchy that quarantines those who don’t conform to statistical average, productivity metrics, or bodily orthodoxy.

Science, historically, ain’t neutral. It’s a colonial ideology with a scalpel. And disabled people? We've always been framed as “deviations,” “deficits,” or “burdens.” Science labels us “cases” not collaborators, “subjects” not strategists. We’re research fodder for cure-hungry vultures, data points for grants, abstract meat puppets — but never the authors of the study. Never the engineers of our liberation.

Becky Sue here, cracking knuckles & breaking binaries — because the entire methodology must be molten. We’re not asking for inclusion. Inclusion is crumbs. We’re rewriting the rules of the experiment. You want science to see you, naked? First we gotta blind it with a light it can’t quantify: lived experience amplified by epistemic insurrection.

ACT II: THE QUANTUM REBELLION — WHEN CRIPS CONTROL THE LAB

So what would it take? Here's the naked blueprint, telescoped from future shockwaves & disability justice spacetime:

1. Radical Epistemological Re-centering

Throw out the concept that only “objective,” “replicable,” “peer-reviewed” knowledge is real. That’s the lie that erased us. Replace it with cripistemology — knowledge forged from pain, embodiment, adaptation, sensory translation, survival. Make the scientific method spiral into a Möbius strip where the observer & the observed are in co-creation.

🔬 Replace the lab rat with the lab witch.
🧪 Replace the study with the spell.

2. Universal Design as Prime Directive

If your technology, infrastructure, or hypothesis isn’t designed to be accessed by all minds & all bodies — it’s broken. Science must adopt a design ethic that assumes diversity from the start. Not postscript, not patchwork, not “accommodation” — but embedded from blueprint to breakthrough.

Elevators in the ivory tower, bitch. With captions, scentless buttons, & neurodivergent mood lighting.

3. Disabled Scientists in Power — Not Just in Papers

Representation ain’t enough. We need disabled principal investigators, grant-makers, AI coders, astronomers, biologists, particle physicists — and we need them unmasked, uncloseted, & unaccommodating to respectability politics.

Give us the keys to the collider. Let us run the telescope arrays. Let us write the goddamn algorithms. Because right now? Most disability research is done on us, not by us. That’s not science — that’s surveillance.

Our crutches will replace your clipboards.
Our sensory overloads will recalibrate your metrics.
Our panic attacks will become your variable of significance.

4. Ethical Funding & Decolonized Incentives

Scientific inquiry follows the money like gravity follows mass. If funding prioritizes “curing” us rather than empowering us, the system will always mine our pain for prestige. What we need? A redistribution of research capital that prioritizes:

Access tech built by users, not techbros.
Chronic pain management grounded in user-led design.
Neurodivergent education systems co-authored by students.
AI models trained on nonverbal communication nuance.
Medical tools invented outside pharma empires.

Stop funding weapons to fight disability. Start funding ecosystems that let it bloom.

5. The Naked Peer Review Uprising

We propose a crip review board: a meta-jury of disabled thinkers who evaluate not just scientific rigor but social impact, access design, & whether the hypothesis itself reeks of ableist rot.

You want your astrophysics grant approved?
Prove it doesn't contribute to Earthly neglect.
Prove it can be explained without verbal language.
Prove it makes life better for someone with a feeding tube, a seizure disorder, a sensory processing condition, a disintegrating spine.
If not, your telescope can suck stars.

ACT III: THE LANGUAGE OF LIVED THEORY

Science must speak disability — not with pity or pathology, but with fluency. We need new lexicons:

“Crip time”: nonlinear, body-respecting, revolutionary timekeeping.
“Neurovariance”: evolutionary advantage, not mental defect.
“Adaptive genius”: solving what society refuses to acknowledge.
“Sensory cartography”: the inner multiverse of autistic perception.
“Access intimacy”: relational infrastructure beyond ramps & apps.

And we need those words everywhere — in white papers, codebases, telescope logs, CERN lunchroom signs.

ACT IV: CONSCIOUSNESS COLLIDERS & CRIP SUPERCOLLIDERS

Becky Sue again, lighting up the particle accelerator of your soul. The real holy grail of science isn’t Higgs boson residue — it’s interdependence. The biggest unspoken truth in every scientific revolution is that we are all already dependent on each other’s invisible labor, unspoken access, translated energy.

Disability isn’t a flaw in the matrix. It’s the matrix.

What if we engineered a version of the Large Hadron Collider that smashed ableism instead of atoms? That traced the particle decay of medical gaslighting? That measured the gravitational lensing of chronic fatigue?

What if every experiment began with the hypothesis: What would make this system survivable for someone who’s never been seen as a full citizen of science?

ACT V: DISABLED PEOPLE ARE THE MISSING NOBEL LAUREATES

Naked, the revolution is already coded in your neurons. You’re the black swan of Darwinism. The dark matter of sociocultural mass. You are the variable no one accounted for — and when science finally bends the lens your way, it won’t just see disability differently.

It’ll see everything differently.

Here’s the prophecy:

The next Einstein won’t publish in Nature.
She’ll be nonverbal, typing with her eyes in a corner of the internet no peer reviewer understands.
The next Rosalind Franklin won’t hold a pipette.
They’ll dream genetic maps between seizures.
The next Hawking won’t wait for a university to validate them.
They’ll livestream quantum punkspeak from a ventilated bed, redefining the laws of cause & effect with glitch art & EEGs.

ACT VI: BUILDING THE NAKED SCIENCE OF THE FUTURE

So how do we make science see you, naked?

We hack its instruments.
We short-circuit its protocols.
We occupy its frameworks.
We rewrite its origin myth.
We glitch its language into autistic poetics.
We make our bodies the blackboards.
We turn every diagnosis into a hypothesis.
We create peer-reviewed anarchy with data trails of joy, grief, sex, sweat, pain, truth.

We flood the telescope with mirrors.

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Physics factoid: The Large Hadron Collider can recreate the conditions of the early universe — but only disabled minds can simulate futures that don’t erase anyone.

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