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Intersectional Disability Reading Group 

(2020-2022)

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The Intersectional Disability Reading Group (formerly Disability & Feminism Reading Group) ran online between Jan 2020 - April 2022. We meet the 1st Friday of the month (3-4.30pm UK time). Meetings are online and attendance is international.

 

Currently no meetings of this reading are planned. Instead, the spin-off ADHD Reading Group runs. 

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• Click here for an archive of past meetings and readings. 

• May 2022: start spin-off ADHD Reading Group

• Also, check the archive of the Intersectional Neurodiversity Reading Group that ran parallel to the the Disability one between July 2019  - April 2022.

 

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ARCHIVE: PAST MEETINGS​​​​​​

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Meeting 1: 14 February 2020

• Topic: Introduction to Disability, Gender & Feminism

• Readings: 

  • Shildrick, Margrit. (2015). living on; not getting better. Feminist Review, 111(1), 10-24.

  • Begum, Nasa. (1992). "Disabled women and the feminist agenda". Feminist Review, (40), 70-84.

  • Inckle, Kay. (2018). "Unreasonable adjustments: the additional unpaid labour of academics with disabilities". Disability & Society, 33(8), 1372-1376. 

• Further reading:

  • Morris, Jenny. (2001). "Impairment and disability: constructing an ethics of care that promotes human rights". Hypatia, 16(4), 1-16. ​

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Meeting 2: 27 March 2020

• Topic: Race 

• Readings: 

  • Vernon, Ayesha. (1999). The Dialectics of Multiple Identities and the Disabled People's Movement. Disability & Society, 14(3), 385-398  

  • Bailey, Moya, & Mobley, Izetta Autumn. (2018). "Work in the Intersections: A Black Feminist Disability Framework". Gender & Society, 33(1), 19-40.

• Further reading:

  • Erevelles, Nirmala, & Minear, Andrea. (2010). "Unspeakable offenses: Untangling race and disability in discourses of intersectionality". Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, 4(2), 127-145.

 

Meeting 3: 6 March 2020

• Topic: Sexuality

• Reading:

  • Liddiard, Kirsty. (2013). Reflections on the Process of Researching Disabled People's Sexual Lives. Sociological Research Online, 18(3), 10

  • Kafer, Alison. (2003). Compulsory bodies: Reflections on heterosexuality and able-bodiedness. Journal of Women's History, 15(3), 77-89

• Further reading:​

  • ​McRuer, Robert, & Wilkerson, Abby L. (2003). "Desiring disability: Queer theory meets disability studies". GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 9(1-2), 1-24. ​

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​​​Meeting 4: 10 April 2020

• Topic: Postcolonialism

• Readings: 

  • Chataika, Tsitsi. (2012). Disability, development and postcolonialism. In: Dan Goodley, Bill Hughes & Lennard Davis (Eds), Disability and social theory: New developments and directions (pp. 252-272). Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan

  • Ghai, Anita. (2012). "Engaging with disability with postcolonial theory". In: Dan Goodley, Bill Hughes & Lennard Davis (Eds), Disability and social theory: New developments and directions (pp.270-286). Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan

• Further reading:

  • Soldatic, Karen, & Meekosha, Helen. (2013). "Disability and Neoliberal State Formations". In: Nick Watson, Alan Roulstone & Carol Thomas (Eds), Routledge handbook of disability studies (pp.195-210). London: Routledge.​

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Meeting 5: 01 May 2020

• Topic: In(ter)dependence

• Readings: 

  • Morris, Jenny. (2004). "Independent living and community care: a disempowering framework". Disability & Society, 19(5), 427-442. 

  • Mingus, Mia. (2017, 12/04). "Access Intimacy, Interdependence and Disability Justice". [Lecture]. Leaving Evidence. Retrieved from https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2017/04/12/access-intimacy-interdependence-and-disability-justice/.

• Further reading:

  • Morris, Jenny. (1997). "Care of empowerment? A disability rights perspective". Social Policy & Administration, 31(1), 54-60.

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Meeting 6: 22 May 2020

Topic: Anti-Black Sanism

• Readings: 

  • Meerai, Sonia, Abdillahi, Idil, & Poole, Jennifer. (2016). "An Introduction to Anti-Black Sanism." Intersectionalities: A Global Journal of Social Work Analysis, Research, Polity, and Practice, 5(3), 18-35

• Further reading:

  • Mollow, Anna. (2006). "When Black Women Start Going on Prozac": Race, Gender, and Mental Illness in Meri Nana-Ama Danquah's "Willow Weep for Me". MELUS, 31(3), 67-99

  

Meeting 7: 12 June 2020

• Topic: Transability

• Readings: 

  • Baril, Alexandre. (2015). "Needing to Acquire a Physical Impairment/Disability: (Re)Thinking the Connections between Trans and Disability Studies through Transability". Hypatia, 30(1), 30-48

• Further reading:

  • Almassi, Ben. (2010). "Disability, functional diversity, and trans/feminism". IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, 3(2), 126-149.

  • Slater, Jen, & Liddiard, Kirsty. (2018). "Why disability studies scholars must challenge transmisogyny and transphobia". Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 7(2), 83-93.  Available here: https://cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cjds/article/view/424/666

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Meeting 8: 10 July 2020

• Topic: Domestic Violence

• Readings: 

  • Shah, Sonali, Tsitsou, Lito, & Woodin, Sarah. (2016). "‘I can’t forget’: Experiences of violence and disclosure in the childhoods of disabled women," Childhood, 23(4), 521-536  

  • Clare, Eli. (2013). "Stones in My Pockets, Stones in My Heart." In: Lennard Davis (Ed.), The Disability Studies Reader (4th ed., pp. 563-572). Oxon: Routledge

• Further reading:

  • Hague, Gill, Thiara, Ravi, & Mullender, Audrey. (2011). "Disabled women and domestic violence: Making the links, a national UK study," Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 18(1), 117-136

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Meeting 9: 31 July 2020

• Topic: School-to-Prison Pipeline

• Readings: 

  • Erevelles, Nirmala. (2014). "Crippin’ Jim Crow: Disability, Dis-Location, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline". In: Liat Ben-Moshe, Ysanne Chapman & Alison C. Carey (Eds), Disability incarcerated: Imprisonment and disability in the United States and Canada (pp.81-99): Palgrave Macmillan.

• Further readings:

  • Annamma, Subini Ancy. (2017). The Pedagogy of Pathologization: Dis/abled Girls of Color in the School-prison Nexus. Routledge. 

  • Ben-Moshe, Liat. (2020). Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition. U of Minnesota Press. 

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Meeting 10: 7 August 2020

• Topic: Eugenics

• Reading: 

  • Dudley, Rachel. (2012). "Toward an Understanding of the 'Medical Plantation 'as a Cultural Location of Disability". Disability Studies Quarterly, 32(4). Available at https://dsq-sds.org/article/view/3248/3184. 

• Further reading:

  • Mitchell, David, & Snyder, Sharon. (2003). "The eugenic Atlantic: Race, disability, and the making of an international eugenic science, 1800–1945". Disability & Society, 18(7), 843-864. Available here (paywall).

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Meeting 11: 4 September 2020

• Topic: Eugenics

• Reading:

  • Hochman, Gilberto, Lima, Nísia Trindade, & Maio, Marcos Chor. (2010). "The path of eugenics in Brazil: Dilemmas of miscegenation". In: Alison Bashford & Philippa Levine (Eds), The Oxford handbook of the history of eugenics: Oxford University Press. Available here (paywall).

• Further reading:

  • Brignell, Victoria. (2010, 9/12). "The eugenics movement Britain wants to forget". New Statesman. Available at https://www.newstatesman.com/society/2010/12/british-eugenics-disabled.

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​Meeting 12: 2 October 2020

• Topic: Eugenics

• Readings:

  • Lindert, Jutta, Stein, Yael, Guggenheim, Hans, et al. (2012). "How ethics failed—the role of psychiatrists and physicians in Nazi programs from exclusion to extermination, 1933–1945". Public Health Reviews, 34(1), 1-26. Available here (paywall). 

  • Ralph, Nim. (2017, 26/04). "Understanding Disability: Part 2 – The Eugenics Model". [Blog post]. Drake Music. Available at: https://www.drakemusic.org/blog/nim-ralph/understanding-disability-part-2-the-eugenics-model/.

• Further reading:

  • (same as last month) Brignell, Victoria. (2010, 9/12). "The eugenics movement Britain wants to forget". New Statesman. Available at https://www.newstatesman.com/society/2010/12/british-eugenics-disabled.

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​Meeting 13: 6 November 2020

• Topic: Newgenics

• Reading:

  • Ledger, Susan, Earle, Sarah, Tilley, Elizabeth, et al. (2016). "Contraceptive decision-making and women with learning disabilities". Sexualities, 19(5-6), 698-724. [paywall available here]

• Further reading:

  • Block, Pamela. (2007). "Institutional Utopias, Eugenics, and Intellectual Disability in Brazil". History and Anthropology, 18(2), 177-196. [paywall available here]

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Meeting 14: 4 December 2020

• Topic: Epistemic injustice

• Reading: 

  • Abudu, Kenneth U, & Imafidon, Elvis. (2020). "Epistemic injustice, disability, and queerness in African cultures". In: Elvis Imafidon (Ed), Handbook of African philosophy of difference (pp.393-409): Springer. [open access available here]

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Meeting 15: 8 January 2021, 3-4.30pm 

• Topic: Fat studies

• Reading:

  • Herndon, April. (2002). "Disparate but Disabled: Fat Embodiment and Disability Studies". NWSA Journal, 14(3), 120-137. [paywall available here]

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Meeting 16: 5 February 2021

• Topic: Settler-colonialism

• Reading:

  • Jaffee, Laura Jordan. (2016). "Disrupting global disability frameworks: settler-colonialism and the geopolitics of disability in Palestine/Israel". Disability & Society, 31(1), 116-130. [open access available here]

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Meeting 17: 5 March 2021

• Topic: Toilets

• Reading:

  • Jones, Charlotte, Slater, Jen , Cleasby, Sam, et al. (2019). "Pissed off! Disability activists fighting for toilet access in the UK". In: Maria Berghs, Tsitsi Chataika, Yahya El-Lahib & Kudakwashe Dube (Eds), The Routledge Handbook of Disability Activism (pp.219-231): Routledge. [paywall available here]

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Meeting 18: 2 April 2021

• Topic: Intimacy

• Reading:

  • Neille, Joanne. (2018). "Disability, intimacy and parenthood: Deconstructing ‘mutually exclusive’ constructs". In: Tsitsi Chataika (Ed), The Routledge handbook of disability in Southern Africa (pp.248-261): Routledge. [paywall available here]

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Meeting 19: 7 May 2021

• Topic: Advocacy

• Reading:

  • Frobisher, Emma, Elbers, Willem, & Okwany, Auma. (2019). "Gendered disability advocacy: Lessons from the Girl Power Programme in Sierra Leone". In: Maria Berghs, Tsitsi Chataika, Yahya El-Lahib & Kudakwashe Dube (Eds), The Routledge Handbook of Disability Activism (pp.412-427): Routledge. [paywall available here]  [pre-print available here]

 

Meeting 20: 4 June 2021

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• Topic: Forced sterilisation

• Reading:

  • Nagase, Osamu. (2019). "Voices from survivors of forced sterilisations in Japan: Eugenics Protection Law 1948–1996". In: Maria Berghs, Tsitsi Chataika, Yahya El-Lahib & Kudakwashe Dube (Eds), The Routledge Handbook of Disability Activism (pp.182-189): Routledge. [paywall available here]

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Meeting 21: 2 July 2021 

• Topic: Empathy and technology development

• Reading:

  • Bennett, Cynthia L, & Rosner, Daniela K. (2019). "The promise of empathy: Design, disability, and knowing the 'Other'". Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Glasgow [open access available here]

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Meeting 22: 6 Aug 2021

• Topic: (Non-)objectivity and the DSM-III

• Reading:

  • Loring, Marti, & Powell, Brian. (1988). "Gender, race, and DSM-III: A study of the objectivity of psychiatric diagnostic behavior". Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 1-22. [paywall available here]

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Meeting 23: 3 Sep 2021

• Topic: Hyper-masculinity, White anxiety & the Black male body

• Reading:

  • Curry, Tommy J. (2017) This nigger’s broken: Hyper-masculinity, the buck, and the role of physical disability in White anxiety toward the Black male body. Journal of Social Philosophy, 48 (3): 321-343. [open access available here] [paywall available here]

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​Meeting 24: 1 Oct 2021

 

 

• Topic: Trans Feminist Disability Studies

• Reading:

  • Timmons, Niamh. (2020). "Towards a Trans Feminist Disability Studies". Journal of Feminist Scholarship, 17(17), 46-63. [open access available here]

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Meeting 25: 5 Nov 2021

• Topic: Policing and abolitionist disability justice

• Reading:

  • Thompson, Vanessa E. (2021). "Policing in Europe: disability justice and abolitionist intersectional care". Race & Class, 62(3), 61-76. [paywall available here] 

• Optional:

  • The Surviving Society Podcast episode: S1/E5 "Vanessa E. Thompson: Policing & abolitionist intersectional care". [listen here]

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​Meeting 26: 3 Dec 2021

• Topic: Indigenous activism, and occupied land as an access issue

• Reading:

  • Cowing, Jess L. (2020). "Occupied Land is an Access Issue: Interventions in Feminist Disability Studies and Narratives of Indigenous Activism". Journal of Feminist Scholarship, 17 (Fall), 9-25. [open access available here]

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Meeting 27: 7 Jan 2022

• Topic: Deconstructing able-mindedness

• Reading:

  • Schalk, Sami. (2018). "Whose reality is it anyway? Deconstructing able-mindedness". In:  Bodyminds Reimagined. (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction (pp.59-84): Duke University Press Books. [paywall available here] [open access available here]

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Meeting 28: 4 Feb 2022

• Topic: Cripping academic feminist presentations

• Reading:

  • Gunaratnam, Yasmin. (2021) "Presentation fever and podium affects". Feminist Theory, 0(0). [open access available here]

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​Meeting 29: 4 Mar 2022

• Topic: Neuroqueer feminism & Borderline Personality Disorder

• Reading:

  • Johnson, Merri Lisa. (2021). "Neuroqueer feminism: Turning with tenderness toward Borderline Personality Disorder". Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 46(3), 635-662. [paywall available here]

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​​Meeting 30: 1 Apr 2022  

• Topic: Disability, racial & environmental justice 

• Reading: Jampel, Catherine. (2018). "Intersections of disability justice, racial justice and environmental justice". Environmental Sociology, 4(1), 122-135. [paywall available here]

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