11 Perching as a Strategy for Seeking Legitimacy for Broken Embodiments

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations x
4. Acknowledgments xii
5. Introduction 3
6. Assemblages of Disability Research, Art, and Social Transformation
7. Fixing 25
8. Imagining Otherwise 54
9. PosterVirus 76
10. Deaf and Disability Arts 98
11. “It Fell on Deaf Ears” 118
12. Artistic Paths to Disability Activism
13. (Dis)quiet in the Peanut Gallery 141
14. Battle Lines Drawn 162
15. Deconstructing Phonocentrism 181
16. Crip the Light Fantastic 198
17. Claiming “the Masters” for Disability Rights 206
18. Rethinking Agency in Canadian Disability Movements
19. Perching as a Strategy for Seeking Legitimacy for Broken Embodiments 221
20. Challenging Rhetorical Indifference with a Cripped Poetry of Witness 241
21. The Body as Resistance Art/ifact 260
22. Divided No More 279
23. Accountability, Agency, and Absence 289
24. Conclusion 309
25. Contributors 321
26. Index 329