Search Results for disability

... and employment of establishing substance use disorder as a (white) disability and not a (black) criminal liability as it was understood throughout the Reagan-Bushera War on Drugs. These racially disparate characterizations of substance use disorder help shape and in turn are perpetuated by the respective...

...Christina Crosby; Janet R. Jakobsen As one approach to the left of queer, the authors explore the juncture between queer studies and disability studies. Queer disability studies offers ways of conceptualizing the world as relationally complex, thus contributing additional pathways for the long...

...Jina B. Kim Abstract Drawing together feminist- and queer-of-color critique with disability theory, this essay offers a literary-cultural reframing of the welfare queen in light of critical discourses of disability. It does so by taking up the discourse of dependency that casts racialized, low...

... or media or explicitly theorized in most queer or trans theory: the move from the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act to the present moment of trans hailing by the US state. Such a trajectory helps map the ways that neoliberal mandates regarding productive, capacitated bodies entrain the trans body...

...H. N. Lukes This article examines the cultural history of amputation in the United States to account for the status of white male woundedness and abstract citizenship in our current neoliberal era. Using critical disability theory to reconsider Michel Foucault’s notion of biopower, the article...

... take the human subject as its dominant object of analysis. Informed by queer, disability, critical race, and postcolonial theory, it marks a biopolitics that acknowledges how interspecies relations form the often unmarked basis upon which scholarly inquiry organizes its objects, political interventions...

..., which targeted the detainee's purported entomophobia, was never actually carried out; however the memo's rationale for the technique reveals the ways in which logics of species, race, sexuality, and disability co-produce technologies of biopower and economies of affect within contemporary US imperial...

... interdisciplinary prospect, and the contributors call on disability studies, trans studies, Black studies, women-of-color feminism, visual culture, and the history of sexuality, generating emergent concepts, including crip-of-color critique (Kim), binary-abolitionist praxis (Stryker), a “trans-mad” aesthetic...

... new media across lines of race, nation, gender, etc.); disability studies’ notions of access as intimately tied to political power and infrastructure; and postcolonial studies’ criticisms of colonial access in tourism and resource extraction of the global South. The article brings together...

... departmentalization of feminist, queer, ethnic, and disability studies into the academic industry has produced a condition whereby we teach majorities to consume minority life—a condition that flattens some discordant and unappetizing affects. This section traces the lingering effects of Marxist and the Frankfurt...

... is to disable critique and segment minority citizens into subordinated inclusion. It asks how collective political action might be heard and endure in such constrained conditions. This specific locus is instructive for the logic of contradistinction as a mode of security rule more widely. It demonstrates...

... disability studies, Southern disability studies, and debility studies. Tadiar focuses on the assault on the capacities for social reproduction. Part of me wants to home in on the corporeal implications of such assaults that transcend virtual platforming to ask about the Filipina domestic laborer, the taxi...

... on the biopoliticization of the social sphere through “third terms”—debility, Indigeneity, and trans—in what follows I stage biopolitics, debility, and negative affect as vectors that condition the undocumented population. I end by proposing mobility as a recalibrator through and around debility/capacity and disability...

... simultaneously contextualizing the varying material conditions that create specters of safety and regimes of security in specific locales and for specific populations. Christina Crosby and Janet R. Jakobsen’s article “Disability, Debility, and Caring Queerly” examines the material conditions and the occluded...

...-term care and supports (e.g., the disabled or differently abled) are social needs that are not readily resolved in a system that relies on commoditized labor. 9 Economies of scale are notoriously difficult to apply to care work. While capitalism is exceptionally good at producing a surfeit of things...

... define themselves by a commitment to “analyses of gender and sexualities in intersection with other important categories including race, ethnicity, religion, class, disability and nationality.”12 For some scholars, intersectionality’s flexibility13 — its status as an “open-­ended concept”14...

... . Bamford Maria . Old Baby . Comedy special. Directed by Yu Jessica . Los Gatos, CA : Netflix , 2017 . Baril Alexandre . “ Transness as Debility: Rethinking Intersections between Trans and Disabled Embodiments .” Feminist Review , no. 111 ( 2015 ): 59 – 74 . BBC News...

... of people of color, immigrants, people with disabilities, poor people, sex workers, and others who rely on public facilities, whether transgender or not. Relatedly, some efforts to protect trans people—by educating state agencies or refining surveillance technologies to properly recognize transgender people...

... people? To attempt to engage these questions, let’s turn to amnesia itself. Amnesia is a disability of losing or having little memory that arises from trauma, brain damage, and other causes. There are many types and causes of amnesia. Amnesia even arises as a side effect of therapeutic interventions...

...? Against the lone, disabled, and comic protagonist of the Balaam stories, the testimonial and advertising pages accumulate many small stories, evoking a multitude and a citizenry, loudly proclaiming both their physical tragedies and their entitlement to health; the black citizen is singular, isolated...