Beyond Smartness: Disrupting the Hegemony of Smartness Through Disability Studies
By Emily KingsleyMarch 7, 2016 - 02:05

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Here is my paper! (sorry the images are in the word file)
Hey guys!
My project works better if seen in a presentation format and I could not technologically figure out how to put it on serendip. Therefore, I have sent everyone the link to it but I am posting here so if you all want to comment on it, you can do so on this post as if it were the presentation. I will also try to attach it to this just in case but I want to make sure you can view the videos.
Sorry for the inconvenience!
Thanks
The Bearded Lady
There’s no way they could see them. I felt each and every hair that coated my lower chin. They felt prickly and I wondered whether they sprang up individually, one thick black hair at a time. If I wear my hair down then they definitely won’t see. I must be the only one able to see them. It’s like what I learned in psychology class - you see your imperfections more than others. Maybe you can feel them more than others, too.
"Feminist Fumes: Anicka Yi's Miasmatic Art:
http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/04/06/feminist-fumes/
"At MIT, Science Embraces a New Chaos Theory: Art"
Work at the center on Wednesday involved a lot of sanding. We got there late, so the artists had already begun their snack break, and those of us from Bryn Mawr and Haverford gathered in the woodshop to talk to the teacher about the next steps of the project. When the artists returned, we got in our pairs, selected the wood that would serve as the sides of our boxes, and began our sanding rotation. We used a number of tools, including hand sanders (attached to gloves that we put on), the sander powered by the stationary bike, and a tool that smoothed the corners of the wood pieces. When we were done with all of these processes, we sat with our partners and worked on drawing bodies and body parts on the outside sides of the wood pieces.
“Although biomedical platforms are efficient at driving translational research forward, they are not passive and transparent, but actively entrench assumptions that may be deeply contested.”
~ Gills-Buck and Richardson 2014
INTRODUCTION
For Tuesday, March 15, please read Susan Nussbaum's novel Good Kings, Bad Kings.
As you read, think back to our reading of Eli Clare the first week: “.. .gender reaches into disability; disability wraps around class; class strains against abuse; abuse snarls into sexuality; sexuality folds on top of race. . . everything finally piling into a single human body" (Exile and Pride). We will talk about these intersections as we discuss the novel.
Also, please read one another's mid-semester projects on Serendip and comment on one or more (many more, if you wish!) of your classmates's projects, including one that has not yet been commented on.
If you wish, feel free to add a post about Good Kings, Bad Kings too. Not required.
Neuroqueer and Proud:
Claiming Identity and Community Despite and Through Theories of Theory of Mind