New Publication: “Towards a crip methodology for critical disability studies” (with David Serlin)
New Publication: “Towards a crip methodology for critical disability studies” (with David Serlin)
Please join the Transdisciplinary Disability Studies Reading Group for an event on Friday, May 12th at noon. We will review and comment on a new, unpublished paper by Louise Hickman and David Serlin, Towards a Crip Methodology for Critical Disability Studies, with Yelena Gluzman as conversant. If you plan to attend, please email Cassandra Hartblay …
Please find this call for contributions from Eva Egermann, who is currently based at UC Berkeley for a research project. Crip Magazine began in 2012 as a self-published art-zine and collection of materials on crip issues, art, culture and representation contradicting categories of normal/abnormal. The first number featured various articles and interviews as on radical crip movements, …
I have been kindly invited by the Emergency INDEX team, a group of collaborators working to index performances on an annual basis, to expand the presence of disability and related themes into the Index’s repertoire of documented performances. As a contributing editor for this upcoming edition, I am working towards increasing the visibility of artworks …
Image courtesy of Sunaura Taylor, “Lobster Girl”, oil paint on digital print on paper, 5.5′ x 3.5′ (66″ x 42″), 2011. The following image was used as part of Cripistemologies: a disability studies mini-conference held in New York. (April 2013) Click on image for Sunaura’s web page.
In Mullins 2009 TED talk, she said: ‘The conversation with society has changed profoundly in the last decade. It is no longer a conversation about overcoming deficiency. It’s a conversation about augmentation; it’s a conversation about potential. A prosthetic limb does not represent the need to replace the loss anymore. It can stand as a symbol that the wearer has the power to recreate whatever it is and they want to create in that space, so that people society once considered to be disabled can now become architects of their own identities.’
The one simple question I ask, who has access to this?
Pair of artificial legs for a child (red shoes) Leather sockets at the hip and buttock of this prosthesis are open-ended to allow the natural feet to be free. The feet could then control valves that operated a set of artificial arms. The carbon dioxide cylinder that powered the upper limbs can be seen in the left leg.
Worcestershire County Council, Past Caring?
Another post written by myself for Where’s the Benefits website, in depth analysis of ‘Past Caring’ report by We Are Spartacus.
Supported Mortgage Interest and Welfare Reform
This is a post that I wrote for Where’s the Benefits blog – this post mainly considered the impact of Supported Mortgage Interest payment under the Welfare Reform.