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The Able-ist Gaze: Imagining Malingering
By Meadow Jones I’m home from my last class for the evening, and it’s now 7:30 at night. Before bed I will finish grading my students, prepare a presentation for tomorrow, try to finalize my travel...
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Disability Made Visible
By AMarie Houser Your partner touches your arm, your shoulder: his fingers like pebbles, alluvial strikes. Waves of pain radiate from the small pressures. Your muscles constrict; toes are painful in...
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On a Saturday morning in September, I found an unusual email in my inbox. From one perspective, it was a threat. “If you do not do X, then we will do Y,” it essentially read. I was not the sole...
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TFW’s Heather Laine Talley Releases Saving Face: Disfigurement and the...
Saving Face: Disfigurement and the Politics of Appearance By Heather Laine Talley In the twenty-first century, appearance matters seemingly more than ever before. At the same time that “looking...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: A History of Lipstick
By Zoe Handler I fall in love for the first time. My partner sighs when my kisses leave faint red lipstick marks on their forehead and their white shirts. Each time I’m apologetic but I like the idea...
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Complexities and Messiness: Race, Gender, Disability and the Carceral State...
By Carolyn Tyjewski I’ve been an activist for decades, and always intentionally (and sometimes not) at the intersections of communities that are fighting similar battles. Whether it was fighting the...
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By Carolyn Tyjewski The BlackLivesMatter movement was founded on the premise that we should centralize the most marginalized within the Black liberation movements of old. Specifically, the movement...
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My Disability is a Joke
By Caddie Alford What if your disability were just a punchline? Online at The New York Times Opinion, they’re thinking about disability. Funny how quickly these conversations are dulled, transformed...
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We Can’t Let After Tiller Slide
By Viki Peer I was so excited to attend a university-wide screening of After Tiller, the 2013 Emmy-winning documentary about the four remaining doctors who openly provide third trimester abortions in...
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Yank and Pull
By Keshia Scott “Stop! Here, let me help you.” Your hand clenches around my arm and yanks me away from the stairs. You turn me to face you. “There’s a wet floor sign at the bottom of the stairs.” You...
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