I was pregnant, swollen, and tired. I couldn’t get comfortable. I lay on the sofa and loudly said some version of, I’m so swollen and tired. I can’t get comfortable, and dramatically piled pillows beneath my feet, hoping my husband would magically appear with a glass of water. That my legs would swell was expected—it’s […] The post My Favorite Trash TV Is Ruined By Its Ableism appeared first on Electric Literature.| Electric Literature
Passion: Journal of the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotion Faces of Affective Injustice Special Issue Call for Papers Philosophers of emotion and affectivity have recently begun to explore the idea that there may be distinctive forms of injustice related to affectivity. This has involved coining the term “affective injustice” to investigate how […]| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and twenty-fifth installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I am conducting with disabled philosophers and post to BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY on the third Wednesday of each month. The series is designed to provide a public venue for […]| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
This week’s quote-of-the-week post (though it’s only Thursday) addresses the historical legacy of ableism at Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. To open our discussion in th…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
“I have read almost all of your interviews and they are always wonderful. … I am really looking forward to the next installment of Dialogues on Disability.” — Adrian Piper “… a major con…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Faithful readers and listeners of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY may recall that I am curating the Philosophy and Theory of Disability area of The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies that O…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and twenty-fourth installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I am conducting with disabled p…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
I felt both compelled and reluctant to email my friend Tracy Isaacs to express my dismay that she is on the program for the upcoming October conference of the Public Philosophy Network (PPN). The c…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
It’s hard to believe that Elizabeth Barnes continues to position herself as a credible authority with respect to critical philosophical work on disability and even philosophy of disability mo…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Here is some additional summer reading/listening for avid fans of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. The essay that appears below is forthcoming as a chapter in Genealogy: A Genealogy, edited by Verena Erlen…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
What Autistic People Say About NHS and Council Services Dr Chloe Farahar of Aucademy CIC was invited as one of three Autistic experts to a private, closed meeting with the House of Lords Committee on the Autism Act 2009. The committee asked experts to share their views on how the Autism Act 2009 and national … Continue reading From Postcode Lottery to Policy Change: Autistic Voices at Westminster| Aucademy
While the podcast is on a brief hiatus as I finish my book (yay!), I’m sharing this interview that Shawn Pickard hosted with me for Voices for Abilities radio. We discussed how Canadian autis…| Noncompliant - the podcast
The Trump Administration really seems to have a thing for genocide, and I don’t believe this statement to be hyperbolic even if it is a tad theatrical. Whether they’re launching nationwide dragnets to preserve the racial purity of the endangered American factory, militarizing the Rio Grande, or openly conspiring with Benjamin Netanyahu to hollow out...| Center for a Stateless Society
This was the opening keynote speech at the 2018 Disability Intersectionality Summit, in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Oct 13, 2018. The official video recording of this keynote can be found here. Good morning everyone. Thank you so much for having me. … Continue reading →| Leaving Evidence
*Opening keynote speech at KQTcon 2018, the first national LGBTQ Korean conference in the United States, in New York City on 4/7/18. To listen to the live recording from the conference, click here: KQTcon 2018 Keynote. (Thank you to Asia … Continue reading →| Leaving Evidence
“Forced Intimacy” is a term I have been using for years to refer to the common, daily experience of disabled people being expected to share personal parts of ourselves to survive in an ableist world. This often takes the form … Continue reading →| Leaving Evidence
My remarks from the 2017 Paul K. Longmore Lecture on Disability Studies at San Francisco State University delivered on April 11, 2017. To watch and listen to the video of my talk, click here. (Thank you to the Longmore … Continue reading →| Leaving Evidence
We Hunted the Mammoth needs your donations to feed its cat babies that are actually aging adult cats. Please drop a few bucks here or here if you can! And if you’re feeling stuck as a writer,…| We Hunted The Mammoth
Written by Alex* “It was such a relief when I was identified as Autistic. My whole life, feeling like an […] The post “I Like My Masked Self Better Than My Real Self – Whoever That Even Is” appeared first on Reframing Autism.| Reframing Autism
We Hunted the Mammoth needs your support in order to survive and thrive. Please drop a few bucks here or here if you can! CW: Suicide, genocide Last Saturday, a young antinatalist named Guy Edward …| We Hunted The Mammoth
This is the transcript from the recent OCD Fam podcast. You can listen via podcast here and via YouTube here. Summary The OCD Fam podcast featured a conversation between me and Nicole. I shared upd…| Autistic and Living the Dream
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the tenth-anniversary installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I have conducted with disabled philosophers…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
[The text below comprises the keynote address that I gave (via Zoom) to the Dimensions of Difference Conference at Beacon College yesterday. The conference was organized by Professor Zachary Isrow …| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
“I have read almost all of your interviews and they are always wonderful. … I am really looking forward to the next installment of Dialogues on Disability.” — Adrian Piper “I’ve learned …| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
My mother has been in the hospital for the past month, in and out of intensive care; so, my time to post on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY has been constrained. In addition, I have been writing responses …| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
How my personal experience inspired my research study To truly understand my excitement about this new project – and my deep commitment to researching the potential benefits of self-compassion for people who stammer – I need to share a little about how self-compassion changed my own life. Some of you may have read parts of ... read more...| Redefining Stammering
This week’s quote-of-the-week post (though it’s only Thursday) addresses the historical legacy of ableism at Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. To open our discussion in th…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and twentieth installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I am conducting with disabled philo…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
“I have read almost all of your interviews and they are always wonderful. … I am really looking forward to the next installment of Dialogues on Disability.” — Adrian Piper “I’ve learned …| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
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Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and nineteenth installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I am conducting with disabled phil…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Later this month, people in Ontario will vote in a provincial election and determine whether the current premier, Doug Ford, and his Progressive Conservative Party will continue to govern. In my ri…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
I haven’t gotten a pay check since my fellowship ran out in 2017. Funding is scarce for students in the end of their PhDs and scarcer still for international students with disabilities, so it’s not too surprising that I’ve been turned down for everything I’ve applied for. Almost 5 years ago, I wrote with regard […]| Tenure, She Wrote
Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics is seeking stories from parents of children with Down syndrome. If you have a story, consider sharing it!| Secular Pro-Life
This week’s quote-of-the-week post (though it’s only Thursday) draws attention to the marginalization of Foucauldian scholarship on disability and the continuing absence of critical phi…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
The past week has been a whirlwind. The inauguration of Donald Trump to the Office of the U.S. Presidency on January 20 will go down in history as a flashpoint that precipitated sweeping social and…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
This week’s quote-of-the-week post (though it’s only Thursday) addresses the historical legacy of ableism at Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. To open our discussion in th…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
“I have read almost all of your interviews and they are always wonderful. … I am really looking forward to the next installment of Dialogues on Disability.” — Adrian Piper “I’ve learned …| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
How to report academic ableism for someone else and report academic ableism anonymously, based on my experiences helping a friend| Veroniiiica
A.O.'s daughter was diagnosed with a slew of complications but never once regretted being her mother for as long as possible.| Secular Pro-Life
This week’s contribution to the quote-of-the-week thread (though it’s only Wednesday) considers the extent to which nondisabled philosophers and nondisabled feminist philosophers in par…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and fifteenth installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I am conducting with disabled philo…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and fourteenth installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I am conducting with disabled phil…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Parents of children with Trisomy 13 or 18 give many examples of both the bad and good experiences they had with their medical teams.| Secular Pro-Life
My experiences with my state Protection and Advocacy organization, and why every student with a disability should know about them| Veroniiiica
I am addressing this paper to other white temporarily-able-bodied settler feminists interested in moving, not just toward a queer (queerer?) horizon, but toward a nonbinary liberatory futurity as a collective political aspiration (not an identitarian goal of self-actualization). In this paper, I consider how we might mobilize the nonbinary as a freedom practice, a practice building toward a future where we are all free. Imagining and creating a liberatory inclusive future necessarily require...| Lateral
Dear All, I very much regret to tell you that the interview that was originally scheduled for today has been postponed. Disabled people know that institutional time commitments and other arrangemen…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
This week’s quote-of-the-week post (though it’s only Thursday) addresses the historical legacy of ableism at Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. To open our discussion in th…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Patricia discusses the debate that no one wants to have: are we owed perfect children, or do we owe disabled children a chance to thrive?| Secular Pro-Life
Throughout it all, I felt like I couldn’t trust my own judgement about the CDC’s remarks. I felt like I had during those years when doctors gaslit me about what my body was experiencing.| Crutches and Spice
When I was about 7 or eight years old, I wanted to be a ballerina and actress. Bad. I would spin around our living room on my hands and knees and was constantly writing storylines and plays. I was hungry for it. I constantly begged to be enrolled in a neighborhood dance class that many […]| Crutches and Spice
“COVID19 is disastrous and devastating, but has never read up on the Me Too movement, has no opinion on colonization and doesn’t know Johnson.”| Crutches and Spice
As the world grapples with quarantines, self-isolation, and COVID-19, it is also dealing with something people have been loath to recognize: ableism. Throughout the last few weeks, those concerned about their health have been gaslit by seemingly “healthy” nondisabled people who don’t want their lives to be inconvenienced by quarantine and public health policies. Within […]| Crutches and Spice
In the inaugural episode of the Crutches And Spice Podcast, Imani talks about Internalized ableism and ways to combat it. Find a transcript of this episode here: And, make sure to support this podcast here:S1E1 Transcript Internalized Ableism www.patreon.com/ImaniBarbarin| Crutches and Spice
I’m sitting on the edge of my bed in my bathing suit. I have decided to wear it all day in the hopes I would gather the nerve to go to the pool in it. I’m dealing with a particularly rough concoction of thoughts fueling my anxiety today. I want to swim. I have always […]| Crutches and Spice
I am looking for a job. Most of my friends are in the same boat. I was talking to one of my closest friends and they briefly mentioned they weren’t all that concerned about the job hunt, that once they put their mind to it, they’d likely find one immediately. I can’t relate. Everything about […]| Crutches and Spice
Have you ever been forgotten about? Like, people didn’t even think to consider you exist? So completely that you, yourself wondered if you even mattered to the person at all? I mean, you must. Right? They shared all those pictures that got all those likes. You made sure to pose for them when they asked. […]| Crutches and Spice
I can feel your gaze. If you think you’re being slick, you’re not. I don’t even have to look in your direction, I caught your head on a swivel from the moment you heard me coming. Am I odd to you? What is the story you’re concocting in your head about me? What will you […]| Crutches and Spice
Let me make myself clear, this post is not an opportunity for majority culture to attack black people, not even a little bit. With that in mind, I have noticed over the past few years a disturbing trend among people of otherwise marginalized groups. Specifically, mine. Ableism is rampant in the black community. Despite being […]| Crutches and Spice
This week is my birthday, so in the spirit of gift-giving, I want to share you a mundane moment that changed my life. You can take or leave the lesson I learned from it (as you know, I’m not about one person’s experiences being used as another’s prescription), I can just say that it changed […]| Crutches and Spice
No one plans for this to befall their friends or family, but now that ableds are in your life, you suddenly become aware that they are, in fact, actual people. So what do you do now? This has thrown off all of your plans! For your life, for theirs—what is to become of your relationship? […]| Crutches and Spice
Ah what fun. Disability often feels like a lifelong white elephant party. Sure, some of the aspects to being disabled are a gift—being able to think outside the box, the resourcefulness, general bad-assery—but there are many characteristics to our lives that abled people are glad were gifted to us and not them. Discrimination from the […]| Crutches and Spice
I am a member of a shocking (appalling, really) number of dating apps which means that the simple act of checking my messages can feel like drive-by ableism that I’ve brought down upon myself. Throughout my life, I have cultivated a well learned, low threshold for bull–it’s what has gotten me this far. For better […]| Crutches and Spice
If we cannot regularly rely on others to write our story, we should do it our damn selves.| Crutches and Spice
The following is a presentation I gave for a class on the identity formation of able-bodied people in contrast to representation of disabled bodies. The thesis is that able bodied people use two methods to distance themselves from the disabled identity: ableist language as distancing language and the social commodification of disabled bodies. This is […]| Crutches and Spice
In the past few days, America has found itself twisted into a tizzy over the silent protest of San Francisco 49ers player Colin Kaepernick over the police history of the brutal treatment of people of color, specifically African Americans, by police. As soon as Kaepernick decided not to stand for the National Anthem memes popped […]| Crutches and Spice
This is my post for Blogging Against Disablism Day 2016. Like many of my posts, although it focuses on one specific situation (autism research) it applies to a much more broad set of circumstances if you look at it closely. I was originally planning on doing something much more ambitious for BADD, but reality (and […]| Ballastexistenz
lol conflating disability and DEATH so casually that nobody but disabled ppl notices. So the thing is, most of this belongs at the bioethics conference, but, but, jesus. I remember being in high school and not being sure why, exactly, college had to be a thing, because I was going to be dead by the time […]| Just Stimming…
Author’s note: Yesterday in the blogosphere there was an Autism Positivity Day Flash Blog, sparked by one author noticing that someone had found their blog by searching “I wish I didn’t have Asperg…| Just Stimming...
[the following is a full transcript of all slides in slideshow] Ableism Awareness Month Introduction to Ableism and Disability Rights Issues| eisforerin.com
The two hottest takes when it comes to “Autism Safety” – in the “autism community,” that is – always seem to be wandering/elopement and police interactions. Elop…| eisforerin.com
Autism 101 a simple neurodiversity-based explanation [image of head with brain] what is autism? Autism is type of brain wiring (neurological type) that processes information differently than typica…| eisforerin.com
Tolerance vs Acceptance definitions of Tolerance at left: the capacity to endure pain or hardship indulgence for practices different from or conflicting with one’s own the allowable deviation…| eisforerin.com
[Each of the slides above has its own image description. Slideshow can be paused for ease of reading text. Full transcript at the end of this post, with a downloadable PDF.] Issues of social inclus…| eisforerin.com
One of the most frequent questions I hear from parents of autistic children is, “how do I tell them they are autistic?” They want to explain autism to their child in a positive way; to …| eisforerin.com
Disability 101 Medical Model vs Social Model [image of a question mark] what is a “model” of disability? In this case, “model” means a certain way of thinking about disabili…| eisforerin.com