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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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Feminists We Love: Mia Mingus
One insidious effect of systematic oppressions–including ableism, sexism, white supremacy, queerphobia, classism, and colonialism–is that we become disconnected from one another and from ourselves. For...
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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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Degeneracy Now! Suspended Between the Violence of Time and the Timelessness of Violence
Several uneventful Friday evenings ago, I stayed in with my best friend to watch In Time, starring Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried. The film, written,...
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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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Discourses of Disaster and How does it feel to be alive?
I’ve been thinking a lot about representation and competition among trans folks. I’ve been testing out joy as the most vulnerable human experience. Love, I...
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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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TFW Takes a Winter Break
By Tamura A. Lomax, Darnell L. Moore, and Monica J. Casper Y’all, we are tired. The Feminist Wire is successful beyond our imaginations and expectations....
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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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Our Lives Matter: Toward An Intersectional Politics Of Disability
The mantra “nothing about us, without us” echoes through the streets and hallways of disability liberation movements around the world. Of course, the “us” brought...
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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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Illegible[1] Black Death: Denied Media, Mourning, and Mobilization
**** Breaking News Los Angeles International Airport: Gunman opens fire at Airport, killing 1 and injuring 6 more Washington Navy Yard: Gunman opens fire, killing...
