Necessary pleasures of the crip killjoy

In this article, I theorise the relationships between the crip killjoy, joy and refusal. I argue why I think violence is an inherent part of crip, and there is killjoy work in finding ways to accept violence (as a neutral position). I argue that the crip killjoy does discomforting work, making everyone uncomfortable, but that there is a joy in discomfort and violence – influenced by queer notions of jouissance. I then argue that this rejection – and the finding of joy in rejection – is a necessity in building queer-crip futures.