Disability

Mothers with disabilities

I found this article about disabled women and Feminism I found it interesting. It talks about how women with disabilities feel left out of the feminist agenda.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/24/yesallwomen-but-not-really-how-feminism-leaves-the-disabled-behind.html

As society frames it, disability is a loss and a deficit—seemingly pathological in its very existence. This is also the personal experience of a large portion of the disability community. Acquired disability is perhaps the best example of this: many people, your author included, experience acquired disability as a profound sense of loss, and a source of despair.

What if, instead, we reframed disability of all kinds as a source of gain, as the Deaf community has? This is a large part of the mission of the Disability Studies field, seeking to reframe disability as not just a loss, a deficit, but instead an expression of human difference and variation, and thus a valuable part of the human experience.

Rebecca Cook

November 28, 2014

Disability, Identity, Culture

Mental Illness in Mawrtyrdom: Bryn Mawr’s Kairotic Spaces

            Margaret Price, in her book, Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life, articulates the kind of contact zone exercised in the classroom through the invention of a new word: kairotic space. Price argues that kairotic spaces:

Gabrielle Smith

Disability, Identity, Culture

28 Nov, 2014

Ton père, dit-elle parlait une fois de l’exil, de notre exil actuel, et il disait, oh! Je me souviens bien, car personne ne parle comme ton père, il disait: “Il n’y a pas d’exil pour tout home aimé de Dieu. Il n’y a que des épreuves.”

Elle continua encore, mais j’ai oublié la suite, sauf qu’elle répétait très souvent “nous”, d’un accent passionné. Elle disait ce mot avec une particulière énergie, si bien que je me mis à me demander, vers la fin, si ce mot nous désignait nous deux seules, et non pas plutôt les autres femmes, toutes les femmes de notre pays.

Abby Rose

Disability, Identity, and Culture

Prof. Kristen Lindgren

November 28, 2014

CODAs: Life and Language in the Contact Zone of Hearing and Deaf Cultures

Deaf, deaf. Can you tell the difference between the two? 

Katie Hinchey

November 28, 2014

Disability Studies

Unpacking All Of Our Closets

Introduction

Expelled by Disability: Accessibility and Exclusion in Academia

Bridget Murray

              The (Un)Ethical Representation of an Autist Artist 

Amelia Brady-Cole

November 26th, 2014

Didn't post my proposal. My bad. Here it is.

http://prezi.com/buoweqogt1je