Critical Disability Studies and Storytelling considers how institutions and cultural locations 'dis-able' people systemically and socially. The course takes storytelling as a base framework for shared communication and inclusion: whose stories are imagined and told, whose are not? With an intersectional approach, this course engages with the disability rights movement and with disability arts, and is attentive to black disability politics, the history of eugenics, reproductive justice as a field, and the connectivity between making stories and the social determinants of health.
Critical Disability Studies and Storytelling considers how institutions and cultural locations 'dis-able' people systemically and socially. The course takes storytelling as a base framework for shared communication and inclusion: whose stories are imagined and told, whose are not? With an intersectional approach, this course engages with the disability rights movement and with disability arts, and is attentive to black disability politics, the history of eugenics, reproductive justice as a field, and the connectivity between making stories and the social determinants of health.