I’ve had a bunch of people ask me for suggestions of Crip theory or philosophy books about disability since I tweeted this thread. I’ve put together a list of some of my favorite theory below. Please add suggestions in the comments too!
Feminist, Queer, Crip by Allison Kafer
Brilliant Imperfection by Clare
Foucault and the Feminist Philosophy of Disability by Tremain
Foucault and the Government of Disability by Tremain
Ableist Rhetoric by Cherney
Fantasies of Identification by Samuels
Crip Times by McRuer
Unlearning Eugenics by Herzog
Right to Maim by Puar
Disability and Difference by Erevelles
Accessible America by Williamson
Building Access by Hamraie
The Capacity Contract by Simplican
The Rejected Body by Wendell
The Biopolitics of Disability by Mitchell
Capitalism and Disability by Russell
Academic Ableism by Dolmage
Enforcing Normalcy by Davis
Narrative Prosthesis by Mitchell
Disability Rhetoric by Dolmage
Ableism by Nario-Redmond
Curative Violence by Kim
Bodyminds Reimagined by Schalk
Psychiatric Hegemony by Cohen
Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities by Ray
Restricted Access by Ellcessor
Embodying the Monster by Shildrick
What Can a Body Do? By Hendren
The Minority Body by Barnes
Ableism in Academia by Brown
Phenomenology of Illness by Carel
Treatments by Diedrich
Stigma by Goffman
Disability and Passing by Brune
Sex and Disability by McRuer
Mad at School by Price
Not strictly about disability but important concepts in the discussion:
Epistemic Injustice by Fricker
Just Words: On Speech and Hidden Harm by McGowan
What’s the Use by Ahmed
The Promise of Happiness by Ahmed
Against Purity by Shotwell
I’ll be sharing threads about more accessible non-fiction about disability and memoirs, autobiographies, poetry and novels later this week when I have the capacity. Please add books or article links below (even your own if I’ve missed it!).
Also, if you are looking for something specific, you can ask below & I’ll tell you which titles might work best.
Some people wanted to thank me for this labour and it’s just a recirculation of the book recommendations Twitter has given to me. I want people to read these books
But if you desperately want to do something, you can donate to @SFdirewolf Disability Visibility project in my name. Alice does so much for the disability community. It makes me so so happy to see her work supported google.com/amp/s/disabili…
Also. I just realized I only put principle authors and missed to many co-authors. I’m so sorry. 🤦🏼♀️
Hey! Leftists who are currently being called ableists. If you want to stop being called ableists, here is a reading list of books on disability, capitalism and leftist political philosophies.
Hi. I have brain damage from a brain injury. There is Discourse going around from folks (who may or may not have a brain injury too — I don’t know their med history) about how some COVID cautious people are too focused on avoiding brain damage. Lets break both discourses down.
First, COVID caution people in their fear of developing brain injuries are spreading stereotypes about brain injuries. They focus on emotional, aggression, cognitive, and memory issues. I have never been diagnosed with emotional issues from my injury
My memory issues are mostly just forgetting words. My cognitive issues were always intermittent — dampened to do brain fog. And I had a relatively severe brain injury — I was off work for 6 months. What do I experience? Inability to stay warm, aphasia, neurovestibular issues.
I have COVID right now and am including the @VielightInc in my treatment. I had one for brain injury rehab. Two days in a row when I was experiencing what I can recognize as a brain injured person as a neuro energy crash when everything shuts down and I have severe fatigue…
I’ve used the vielight. The first time there was mild improvement. The second time dramatic improvement. Now, neuro crashes often can have dramatic sudden improvements so I can’t definitively attribute it to the Vielight. But many have been asking me about it and
… this is the first tangible thing that feels like it could be directly connected to using it. I had never thought to use it in a neuro crash before. Nor do I know if the machine could produce those effects immediately.
In Texas & other states, she could soon be arrested, forced to register as a sex offender, serve time or be sued for this crotch grab if there are minors present. Think it’s just for drag? In an attempt to make hate constitutional, Texas expanded the legislation to everyone.
Don’t believe me? See here. And Texas’ bill has a civil penalty where citizens could sue even if prosecutors don’t seek charges. dallasnews.com/news/politics/…
States are moving to expand these bills because opponents of Tennessee’s drag ban were granted an injunction by a Trump appointed Federal judge who believes it was designed to put unnecessary restrictions on the freedom of expression of one group. usatoday.com/story/news/nat…
I once tweeted the words ‘Twitter Crush’ and for three weeks after people were sliding into my DMs to tell me I was theirs. About 20 in total. I ended up having to tweet to ask people to stop.
This also happened when someone I was romantically invoiced with betrayed me and completely destroyed my sense of trust and I tweeted about it. While I was still clearly unwell people were messaging me to declare feelings.
I swear folks do this more to disabled femme women on here. The person who betrayed me? Also picked me up on here. I think likely partly because my vulnerability as a disabled woman was reassuring to a dude with abandonment issues. People think we will be dependent.
Someone read this tweet and decided I was saying queer folks are like religion. Some of y’all need remedial reading comprehension lessons on here. Seriously. Lol.
This is one of the most annoying things about Twitter, honestly. Your lack of reading comprehension is your problem. Please seek some kind of lessons or don’t comment in accusatory and angry ways at people making completely DIFFERENT analogies.
The analogy here is about going into a place that something is SUPPOSED to be in and then getting mad it’s there because you don’t like that thing and believe only your identity matter.