Zines as Crip Doulas

This article establishes how liminality offers a route to understanding the zines in Wellcome Collection that connect to being, or becoming, disabled. After Stacey Park Milbern's notion of ‘Crip Doulas’, it explores how zines can support transitions into disability. Responding to the issue's focus on ‘selfing’ and ‘shelving’, this article discusses both: crip doulaing as forming disabled or crip identities, with zines acting as ‘liminal affective technologies’, and crip doulaing as supporting a coming to archives. Through a zine methodology, this article extends existing work on zines and identity construction and offers detailed reflections on the methodological and ethical considerations of research with Wellcome Collection's zines around health and disability.