Body Politics w/ Jasbir Puar (Unlocked)
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The Relationship Between Disability and Debility
Debility is not a description necessarily, but a relationship to disability. The ADA itself already sets up the good disabled from the bad disabled, right? And so in some ways that's what we're talking about, right? So there's always that kind of messy economy that, you know, for me, identifying can operate as an aspirational push all the time. Yes, I want to be recognized, yes, I need in order to get access to X resources, I wants to be recognized. That's a question we should be asking. What does it even take for a crippled body to become a disabled body?"
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