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... narratives of proper citizenship. Indeed, while newspapers elsewhere produced pathologized accounts of Kerwineo's life, Milwaukee seemingly provided a supportive space for Kerwineo and his wives. In exploring how Kerwineo and his wives were able to carve out livable lives for themselves in early twentieth...

.... This article takes up the question of what queer theory can do for intersex, with particular focus on queer temporality. I consider the example of “hypospadias repair,” a surgical intervention justified by invoking restrictive norms of what the penis should look like and be able to do at some point...

... of those imagined as undesirable. Simultaneously, the state makes an invitation to the gentrifying bodies—the idealized body and being for development—which are white, abled, corporate, and hetero- or homonormative. The analysis centers the work of Safe OUTside the System (SOS), a lesbian, gay, bisexual...

... that homosexuality and disability clearly share a pathologized past, and despite a growing awareness of the intersections between queer theory and disability stud- ies, little notice has been taken of the connection between heterosexuality and able-bodied identity, perhaps because able-bodiedness, even more than...

... of able-bodied activity, they also enabled the Amputettes to engage safely in what some might have perceived as queer behavior. Such behavior, far from being the antithesis of military culture, represented a fluid, morphological category within military culture that the institution’s...

... and contested around that binary opposition and how desires and identities do not fit neatly into such a model. Disability studies, simi- larly premised on the idea that the current division of the world into the able- bodied and the disabled is historical and contingent...

... and contested around that binary opposition and how desires and identities do not fit neatly into such a model. Disability studies, simi- larly premised on the idea that the current division of the world into the able- bodied and the disabled is historical and contingent...

... procedures and more intent, first, on producing the same old disability journalism intended for able-bodied consumption and, second, on the somewhat newer project of locat- ing people with disabilities in a much larger, nationalistic narrative.2 In the United States, after all, the imagined post...

... pp. Michael Gill opens his book about intellectual disability, sexual ableism, and sex- ual agency with several personal stories of disability — one of the stories he found himself able to tell in a graduate seminar in disability studies, and the others not. The story he tells is about his...

... in high schools and colleges nationwide. In a powerful chapter 5 on sexuality and persons with a range of disabilities, Fischel lays out the inadequacy of traditional notions of consent (i.e., necessarily verbal). First, folks with limited capacity and differently abled bodies are imagined...

....” Is there some sense in which being one of “the ‘boys’ of San Francisco’s only fulltime lesbo bar” (as the photograph’s caption reads) is an instance of being able to have one’s cake and eat it, too? What understandings of sex and gender, of bodies and relation, make such identifications possible? I...

... marked character assists in “darkening” the white hero, linking him to more subversive or morally suspect forces in the society at large.3 A similar troping of able-bodied disability appears in films structured around a male who, although internally wounded, must be able to walk...

... not yet been approved. there are no other financial services avail- able to me in my city, as welfare reform has made welfare available only to those who are physically able to work. the MS society has given me a motorized wheelchair, which makes getting...

..., it necessarily borrows from various sources. Such borrowing means that disability scholars have not had to reinvent the wheel but have been able to build on the conceptual foundations of identity-based theories that have grown out of other interdisciplinary fields, such as gender studies and critical race...

... to correct it? If you feel that you don t belong in these hallowed marble halls because you are not heterosexual, wealthy, cis- gender, white, thin, able- bodied, and/or citizen it is because you do not, in fact, belong. When you are an imposter in the university s ranks of faculty, you are always...

...” challenge dominating forms of worldly inhabitance, attempting to open spaces capacious enough for the flourishing of unpredetermined modes of life. Mainstream able-­bodied culture tends to emplace disability within two contradictory discourses. On the one hand, the disabled...

... to one of its “petals.”1 Shirley repeatedly ascribed a feminine pronoun to the Sojourner, a free-ranging rover with “her” own scientific instruments, able to conduct soil and rock experiments and take photographs. She traveled over one hundred meters on the surface...

..., and they are forever circling and chas- ing because feeling has not yet been able to catch up to movement. René Girard’s notion of mimetic desire, or the desire for another person’s object of affection, sug- FAULT LINES OF NATION AND SENSATION 101 gests that all...

... DOD Policy. Understanding this outcome requires an assessment of the roles not only of the most visible public officials who produced it, but also of the less detect- able players. Least detectable of all were pro-gay constituencies. Initially entranced by the “stroke of a pen...

... in theaters across the country, has been able to open up conversations about the tensions between blackness and sexuality on a much wider scale than the short film version could. Pariah’s representation of the black family raises questions about being black and gay...