All posts by Guest Contributor
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Disability Made Visible
By AMarie Houser Your partner touches your arm, your shoulder: his fingers like pebbles, alluvial strikes. Waves of pain radiate from the small pressures. Your...
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War and Disability
By Sandra Trappen Problem According to Chris Hables Gray, “wars do make men” (1997:295). And to this I might add, they make women, too. That...
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The Able-ist Gaze: Imagining Malingering
By Meadow Jones I’m home from my last class for the evening, and it’s now 7:30 at night. Before bed I will finish grading my students,...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: The Synonymy of Disease and Sick: A Critique of the American Diabetes Association
By Savannah Johnson If I could bottle magic, I would store it in a vile of insulin. You might imagine me awake in my kitchen...
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Crip Politics? Just … No
By Mark Sherry I have spent most of the last 20 years working with two main groups of disabled people: brain injury survivors and people who’ve...
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Cognitively Accessible Language (Why We Should Care)
By Elizabeth Grace If you use plain language to describe and discuss even complex theories, more people will be able to read your writing. Not...
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Disabilities Studies Gains Cultural Capital? And Now What?
By Alyson Patsavas I attended my very first Society for Disability Studies conference in the summer before I started a PhD program in disability studies....
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Addressing the Criminalization of Disability from a Disability Justice Framework: Centring The Experiences of Disabled Queer Trans Indigenous and People of Colour
By Abla Abdelhadi I write this piece in honour of the countless disabled queer trans Indigenous and People of Colour (IPOC) who have been criminalized,...
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We Exist In Darkness (Living at the Intersections)
By: Naomi Ortiz Intersectionality is described by dominant culture as the location where all of our multiple identities intersect. However, my identities are not straight...
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All In a Day’s Work, or An Incomplete (Chronic)le of Illness
By Alli Yates Writing about my chronic illness is a tricky undertaking. Sitting, thinking, and expressing myself will almost certainly render my body more aching,...
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On Disability and Cartographies of Difference
By Wilfredo Gomez I recently returned to my alma mater to encounter a rather peculiar and interesting narrative about my legacy. While interacting with former...
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My Place in This Conversation
By Alison Piepmeier I wasn’t forced to recognize my participation in oppressive systems related to disability until 2006, when activist and author Harriet McBryde Johnson...
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“Operation Space Surgery” by Gabriele Gervickaite
Operation Space Surgery “I think of my body – wires and screws in it, and marks of scalpel on my skin. My studio is a...
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Op-Ed: Black Men, are we doing enough to stand with Black women? Feminism is for Black Men too.
By Aaron Talley Compared to the bulk of my intellectual trajectory, I have spent very little time engaging directly with Black feminism. Through much of...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Sexual Violence: Why It Can Destroy Us All
By Kenneth Pass I’ve been secretly dealing with a past sexual violation of my body for 10 years. I am a black man, and the...
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Mourning Those Lost, Fighting for Our Lives: 2013 Transgender Day of Remembrance
By Princess Harmony Imagine this: you’re born to the outside world being as healthy as you could possibly be. Imagine that while the world is...
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“Writing Under Siege” by Shakeema Smalls
Today, you went to the grocery store where you inquired about a job. You’re on your last $25. Strangely, after suddenly finding yourself unemployed, you...
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Op-Ed: Revenge Porn, the Law, and Blaming the Victim
By Carmen Rane Hudson Revenge porn has been around longer than the Internet has. It’s a phenomenon where a man, usually an angry ex, publishes...
