Entering the book looking for intersections between gender, sexuality, and disability, I found that these strands (especially in relation to marginalization and oppression) were interlocking in ways far more deep and extreme than I had anticipated--while I expected to find anecdotal reference to the unique, interesecting oppressions experienced by disabled women, what I have read of Nielsen's text instead references notions of disability embedded within female bodies. Reading through history, it became increasingly clear to me that these multiple oppressions didn't just coexist; rather, they were actively used to justify each other in sickening ways.

Creating a space for our postings!

CRITICAL DISABILITY STUDIES:

THEORY AND PRACTICE

Health Studies 304                                            Prof. Kristin Lindgren

Spring 2016                                                       Stokes 118 IA           

Tuesday 7:30-10                                               klindgre@haverford.edu

Stokes 119                                                         610-220-3670

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Hey everyone! These are the articles I was talking about on Tuesday. 

The DIY Scientist, the Olympian, and the Mutated Gene

https://www.propublica.org/article/muscular-dystrophy-patient-olympic-medalist-same-genetic-mutation

The Spoon Theory

http://www.butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory/

COURSE SYLLABUS

Recent articles of interest

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/02/the-student-led-backlash-against-new-orleanss-charter-schools/283597/

http://edushyster.com/i-am-not-tom-brady/

http://www.fairtest.org/get-involved/opting-out

Please find our syllabus -- a googledoc link -- here. Enjoy!

As anyone who has come upon my work on Serendip, numerous online venues or my web site (www.feinart.me), you know that I am an artist that 'draws' upon emotions, stemming from a term I coined from personal experience and doctoral dissertation in Disability Studies, called the Impaired Self.  I will continue to touch on this issue, offering the Serendip readership opportunities to learn how the Impaired Self impacts, effects, determines and reflects one's quality of life.  Again, the Impaired Self is the phenomenon that underlies our impairments and disabilities that in themselves provide challenges to our daily functioning, compared to the 'abled' population.