Disabling Bodies

Selections from Body Battlegrounds, Vanderbilt University Press:
HILLARY, Alyssa. “I Am a Person Now: Autism, Indistinguishability, and
(Non)optimal Outcome” (pgs. 110-112)
KOLB, Rachel. “‘Your Signing Is So Beautiful!’: The Radical Invisibility of
ASL [American Sign Language] Interpreters in Public” (pp. 160-162)
STRAN, Margaret. “Sitting and Resisting: How Using a Wheelchair Confronts
Ideals of Normal” (pp. 228-230)


OPTIONAL: MURPHY, Robert. 1990. “The Damaged Self.” Chapter 4 in The Body Silent: The Different World of the Disabled. Pp. 85-111.

VIDEO: “Hong Kong by Wheelchair.” South China Morning Post. 2017.

VIDEO: “Kingdom of the Little People.” VICE. 2014.

VIDEO: “Sex surrogate gives man with disability a ‘rocket-propelled’ sex life.” New York Post.