Ableist Language and Other Everyday Assaults on Disabled People (or, Stop Talking About “People with Disabilities”!)

Language, a ubiquitous sociopolitical mechanism, operates intentionally and nonsubjectively, and can produce microaggressions whose effects are far-reaching. Language, Lane Greene remarks, is a genius system with no genius. “Bound by rules, yet constantly changing,” Greene notes, “language might be the ultimate self-regulating system, with nobody in charge” (Greene 2018). In systems of language, words and […]

CFP: Transgender: Intersectional/International Conference, Edinburgh, May 28-29, 2019 (deadline: Jan. 31, 2019)

  Transgender: Intersectional/International explores the narratives of diverse transgender people from around the UK and the world, as they experience multiple intersecting inequalities. The conference will go beyond the idea of ‘transgender’ as a single-issue agenda or experience, and instead explore the stories of transgender and non-binary people in connection with intersecting oppressions such as […]