Emma Lee

At the Same Time, Out of Time: Ashley X –– Alison Kafer

Kafer presents the Treatment that Ashley’s parents and doctors (Gunther and Diekema) prescribed for her without consent, as a potentially harmful and degrading experience for disabled bodies and lives. The Treatment has stripped away, as it strips away Ashley’s potential “pleasure” she might experience from what the mastectomy took away from her; violates her choicesContinue reading “At the Same Time, Out of Time: Ashley X –– Alison Kafer”

“Proliferating Cripistemologies: A Virtual Roundtable” –– Robert McRuer and Merri Lisa Johnson

At first, I was really confused as to what exactly this was. I felt like each and every subsection of the essay comprised of a completely different voice, talking about completely different aspects of cripistemology. They didn’t seem to work collectively as a whole, and I felt lost in all these different “I’s”, “i’s”, “us’s”,Continue reading ““Proliferating Cripistemologies: A Virtual Roundtable” –– Robert McRuer and Merri Lisa Johnson”

Notes on Natural Worlds, Disabled Bodies, and a Politics of Cure — Eli Clare

Clare makes an argument about the reckless and hypocritical aspects of society’s innate desire to make a distinction between “natural and unnatural”, “normal and abnormal”. The fact that the disabled body is directly linked to a state of being unnatural, defective, abnormal, or special, he argues, is a form of condescension that aims to eradicateContinue reading “Notes on Natural Worlds, Disabled Bodies, and a Politics of Cure — Eli Clare”

“The Institution Yet to Come”: Analyzing Incarceration Through a Disability Lens –– Liat Ben-Moshe

It was easy to agree with many of Ben-Moshe’s arguments, especially since I am also not a huge fan of the incarceration politics in the United States. I do believe that there is a need to drastically reduce what constitutes an “incarcerable crime”, and felt like the arguments deftly stated all of this in aContinue reading ““The Institution Yet to Come”: Analyzing Incarceration Through a Disability Lens –– Liat Ben-Moshe”