Seeing Differently: Colour Blindness, Cinema, and the Politics of Perception
Anand Padmasenan critically examines the relationship between colour deficiency, cinema, and disability through his documentary film The Color of Colours.
Being a masking crip killjoy
Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril and Daniel P Jones respond to a recent Polyphony essay exploring the access difficulties of wearing face-masks. Introduction In response to Phillips and Soorenian’s recent contribution to the Polyphony, we wish to
To Wear or Not to Wear: Face Masks in Disability Focused Events
Sophie Phillips and Armineh Soorenian outline some of the access difficulties wearing face masks can pose for Disabled people, and how to account for conflicting impairments.
Analysing the Intimate: Learning Disabilities, Sibling-hood and Humour
Tom Ryan explores the role of humour in sibling-hood and how it challenges the ‘joy deficit’ idea in learning disability studies research.
Selective Abortion: Involving People with Down’s Syndrome in the Conversation
Amy Redhead discusses the ethical necessity of involving people with Down’s Syndrome (DS) in discussions of, and debates around, selective abortion (SA). Bioethical debates surrounding Down’s syndrome (trisomy 21) have taken up space in
Disability and depathologisation are not metaphors
Professor Dan Goodley reflects on the recent Northern Network of the Medical Humanities Congress and the necessity to embrace disability as a driving subject of inquiry. I had the pleasure, this week, to attend
Uncomfortable Bedfellows? Critical Disability Studies and Psychoanalysis
Dr. Joe Holloway makes a case for bringing the traditionally differentiated frameworks of psychoanalysis and critical disability studies into dialogue with each-other. Despite the excellent research from a range of scholars working at the
“Living Through the Crip Conundrum”: Differing Bodyminds Event Review, Part 2
Lisanne Meinen, Gert-Jan Vanaken and Tessa Vannieuwenhuyze review the presentations from their groundbreaking ‘Differing Bodyminds’ symposium and doctoral school, which sought to establish the position of crip theory in the Low Countries.
Differing Bodyminds: Setting the Scene For Crip Studies in the Low Countries
Disability scholars Lisanne Meinen, Gert-Jan Vanaken and Tessa Vannieuwenhuyze describe the challenges that shaped Differing Bodyminds – Choreographing New Pathways, the first official event on crip theory in Flanders.
‘Disability and Other Human Questions’: Book Review
Who counts as a human? Emma Salt-Raper reviews Dan Goodley’s new book, Disability and Other Human Questions. In these times of polarised politics, economic instability and the escalating COVID-19 crisis, disability practices and politics