Category Archives: April

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”

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”