Disability JusticePapers

Sarala Emmanuel and Shreen Saroor document how disabled women in eastern Sri Lanka encounter gender norms, inaccessible services and gaps in violence response, and how collective experience is translated into rights advocacy.

Nguyen, Gonick and Bui examine how disabled girls in Vietnam use phone-made short films to represent violence and exclusion, and ask whether participatory images can shift who gets to narrate research.

Drawing on narratives from 16 disabled women in Harare, Christine Peta examines communication and information barriers in reproductive care, and the tension between imposed asexuality, control of intimacy and reproductive autonomy.

Garland-Thomson maps feminist disability studies as a field, showing how disability reshapes feminist questions about bodies, staring, normalcy, dependency, and public life.

McRuer reads As Good As It Gets to show how queer and disabled characters become resources for a heterosexual protagonist’s transformation - and how able-bodied and heterosexual norms reinforce each other.

Wendell begins from disability as socially constructed from bodily reality, asking how ideals of bodily control, productivity, and independence shape feminist body politics.