In this talk, Dr. Anastasia Todd will discuss her newly published book Cripping Girlhood (Michigan, 2024). Cripping Girlhood offers a new theorization of disabled girls and girlhoods, tracing how and why the disabled girl frequently emerges in 21st century U.S. media culture. Through an analysis of media, from TikTok videos to GoFundMe campaigns, the book reveals how the exceptional figure of the disabled girl most often appears in media culture as a resource to work through post-Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) anxieties about the family, healthcare, labor, citizenship, and the precarity of the bodymind. Going beyond a critique of the exceptional disabled girl, the book also examines disabled girls’ self-representational practices and cultural productions, showcasing the political and cultural labor disabled girls perform, from cultivating disability intimacies and community on YouTube, to affirming the value of care labor and interspecies interdependence on TikTok. Ultimately, Cripping Girlhood uncovers how disabled girls “crip” girlhood, or upend normative understandings of disability and girlhood, and in the process, circulate their own capacious re-envisioning of what it means to be a disabled girl.