What Does Law Mean in Crisis? How Crip Feminist Technoscience Will Save Us

What Does Law Mean in Crisis? How Crip Feminist Technoscience Will Save Us with Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown on May 21, 2026.

In the shadow of an empire, in a world on fire, what if we could imagine — and build — otherwise? Crip feminist technoscience teaches us how to wield disabled, mad, neuroexpansive, crip, sick people’s wisdom as a vital tool for surviving now and thriving then. Disabled people know intimately how to strategically leverage legal and policy tools and know precisely the limitations of these tools and frameworks. 

In a polycrisis of pandemic, late-stage capitalism, genocide, climate catastrophe, human rights atrocity, and failure of democratic institutions, we find ourselves confronted with headlines about declining productivity, increased rates of depression, AI plagiarism, and the cost of eggs. We debate about the meaning of international norms and rule of law while the settler empire is crumbling and fascism and white supremacy are growing in fertile ground. Universities are adjunctifying the professoriate, union busting grad students and dining hall workers, repressing student activism, and refusing to address the near ubiquitous use of generative AI to write papers and solve equations. Meanwhile, AI is driving innovation and acceleration of state violence from immigration enforcement to criminalization of protest to genocide. This talk will explore the promises and failures of regulating automation, algorithmic assessment, and generative AI through a framework of disability justice and crip feminist technoscience.