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Disability Studies
Interviews with scholars of disability about their new books.
July 23, 2024
Disability Works
In 1967, the US government funded the National Theatre of the Deaf, a groundbreaking rehabilitation initiative employing deaf actors. This project ali…
July 10, 2024
Storming Bedlam
Mental health care and its radical possibilities reimagined in the context of its global development under capitalism. The contemporary world is over…
July 6, 2024
Spaces on the Spectrum
Movements that take issue with conventional understandings of autism spectrum disorder, a developmental disability, have become increasingly visible. …
June 26, 2024
The Disabled Will
John T. Maier's The Disabled Will: A Theory of Addiction (Routledge Press, 2024) defends a comprehensive new vision of what addiction is and how peopl…
June 21, 2024
Animated Film and Disability
While many live-action films portray disability as a spectacle, "crip animation" (a genre of animated films that celebrates disabled people's lived ex…
June 18, 2024
Travelers to Unimaginable Lands
If you’ve ever worked with dementia patients before, you know how unique and bizarre the experience can be, and how little the stereotypes actuall…
June 17, 2024
Test Subjects
Season Two erupts in our ears with a film-noir soundscape—an eerie voice utters strange and disjointed phrases and echoing footsteps lead to sirens an…
May 31, 2024
The House with All the Lights on
Emily Pacheco speaks with writer and researcher Jessica Kirkness about her memoir, The House with All the Lights on: Three Generations, One Roof, a La…
May 30, 2024
Disability Worlds
In Disability Worlds (Duke UP, 2024), Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp chronicle and theorize two decades of immersion in New York City’s wide-ranging dis…
May 25, 2024
Building a More Inclusive Society
What does an inclusive society look like? And what are the challenges and opportunities when the society in question, Timor-Leste, is one of the most …
May 25, 2024
Care
During the COVID pandemic, billions of dollars in relief aid was sent out to help us ride out the storm, although many people who struggled throu…
May 21, 2024
Disabled Ecologies
A powerful analysis and call to action that reveals disability as one of the defining features of environmental devastation and resistance. Deep belo…
May 14, 2024
Crip Colony
In Crip Colony: Mestizaje, US Imperialism, and the Queer Politics of Disability in the Philippines (Duke UP, 2023), Sony Coráñez Bolton examines the r…
April 20, 2024
Measuring Difference, Numbering Normal
Measurements, and their manipulation, have been underestimated as crucial historical forces motivating and guiding the way we think about disability. …
April 3, 2024
Crip Spacetime
In Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life (Duke University Press, 2024), Margaret Price intervenes in the competitive, p…
March 1, 2024
Blindness and Spectatorship in Ancient and Modern Theatres
The use of disability as a metaphor is ubiquitous in popular culture – nowhere more so than in the myths, stereotypes and tropes around blindness. To …
February 25, 2024
Worlds of Care
Vulnerable narratives of fatherhood are few and far between; rarer still is an ethnography that delves into the practical and emotional realities of i…
January 28, 2024
Reader's Block
Matthew Rubery's book Reader’s Block: A History of Reading Differences (Stanford UP, 2022) explores the influence neurodivergence has on the ways indi…
January 26, 2024
The Intersection of Fashion and Disability
The history of the fashion industry has been well written as it relates to people who conform to certain physical norms and cultural stereotypes, wher…