KEYNOTE BY
BRENDA BRUEGGEMANN
The conference is free, accessible and open to the public. We encourage pre-registration at www.safetyrules.net/BCCC.html.
8:30 Arrive and light breakfast
8:45 Introduction
9:00-10:15 En/abling Narratives
Moderator: Eileen Schel
As the program coordinator for Enable's Day Habilitation program, Community Networks, I have been given the opportunity to form a collaboration with the students of Syracuse University. The Spring 2008 course “Writing with the Community: Critically Researched Perspectives on Disability Arts, History, and Culture” with Zosha Stuckey has proven to be an exciting and productive opportunity for our participants to learn in the most inclusive forum of them all…the community. The collaboration, or better still, the friendships that are developing between the participants of our program and the SU students is unparalleled in the rhetoric of inclusion. This joint venture leaves the semantics of inclusion in the textbooks and offers a truly realistic view of adults helping one another to achieve a meaningful and innovative outcome. This outcome is being measured in passion, another positive tangent of the student/participant relationship.
The purpose of this program is to access and hone the talents of both the students and the participants. The role of the student is to capture the imagination of the participant and to creatively form a text depicting the emotions and thoughts of the participant as they theatrically transform into the idol, role model, etc. of their choosing. The extended goal of this collaboration is to have the journal published with professional photos of the participants in character followed by the text that the students and participants penned. The participant's role is to be accepting of this new venture in their lives. The choice, whether to commit to the program or abstain is, and always will be, their choice.
The requested forum at the conference will be to highlight the collaborative efforts of the students and the participants. Two couplings of the student/participant endeavor will explain the process. The possibilities become probable when communities join as one. The combination of Syracuse University and Enable is inspiring as these two intrinsically different populations prove that relationships are built upon passion, not ability. The innovation of the SU Writing Department, the Mary Ann Shaw Center for Public and Community Service, and Enable's Community Networks trailblazes a path that few have traveled. That first step is always the hardest and hopefully, during our presentation we will show that anything is possible when you are interdependent upon one another.
Living in a facility with residential care such as group homes, nursing homes, or an individualized residential setting, no matter if it is a large or micro may carry characteristics of total institutions such as those described by Goffman (1961) in Asylums. These are for example initial adjustment, tightly scheduled activities, supervision by staff, role dispossession and assigning, punishment-reward system, or institutional ceremonies such as dinners and celebrations together). Interested in the institutional culture of these settings, how it develops and persists, I have spent more than two years mapping and researching the ways two people labeled with developmental or intellectual disabilities live. One of them recently moved into an all-male Individualized Residential Alternatives certified house (IRA), similar to a group home, and one who lives on her own with housemates and care attendants coming into her private apartment to help with daily chores.
This presentation is based on in-depth qualitative research study of two case studies of people labeled with developmental disabilities who live in supported settings. The purpose of this study is to show the agency that people with developmental disabilities have, think they have, and are given by others, whether they are family or service providers. I seek to understand the variety of conflicting and even opposing perspectives on a person's life, including viewpoints of the person labeled with developmental disability, his or her family, friends, staff members, administrators, or service coordinators. I want the voices of the persons labeled with developmental disability to be heard by the others, by their closest family members and staff, or service coordinators. The major themes this presentation will focus on are: Daily operation of the houses including meals, hygiene, recreation, and rules setting; staff members training and relationships with housemates; sexuality; learning to be independent; the agency of people with developmental disabilities; the future of similar houses. I hope that the narratives will challenge dominant notions of normalcy and the institutional arrangements we, as nondisabled people, create and employ around care of people labeled with developmental disabilities.
10:30-11:45 Engaging Disability in the Arts
Moderator: Corrie Burdick
The purpose of this request is to present, from an art project director's point of view, a philosophy of the creative process engaging people with disabilities and their communities as expression of self is revealed through artistic community interaction.
During my tenure of fourteen years at Enable, providing services to people with developmental disabilities enrolled in the Day Habilitation program, I have orchestrated painting projects with the participants of the program, winning three community- based awards. These honors were attained through anonymous judging within the community. In other words, we presented our creation as people, not people with disabilities. Being judged as a number, a statistic, and winning is an ironic twist of fate for our artists, considered by many as disabled.
I spearheaded a dramatic presentation called the “Masque,” a celebration of the rights and passions of people with disabilities. Having written and directed the project, incorporating the participants in the creative process, the play became a creative insight into the hearts and minds of our participants and the community in which they dwell.
With success does not come resting, at least not in my world. The ever changing the political landscape of disabilities within our communities, drove Enable to team with an innovative writing team of students from Syracuse University, showing that diversity and disability must be championed.
I would welcome the opportunity to speak with the student population and the community, presenting past and current art designed by our participants. A leading artist in our community, and one of our Community Networks' participants, will be available to relate his story of collaboration and participation in the artistic circles of Syracuse.
will strive to open the hearts of the attendees as I present my passion and my dreams for continued relationships between people with disabilities and their communities.
In my paper, I attempt to examine and interpret works of art by artist with disabilities, and artistic images of disability, as well as works by artists with cancer. I focus on appropriation -as a(n artistic) strategy - of canonical images and artistic traditions, when these artists expose their bodies in positions, poses, and contexts previously known and reserved only for the typical and ideal body. With this technique, the artists discussed subvert the medicalization of the body with disability and cancer.
I consider appropriation a postmodern strategy. With the re-interpretation of images, these artists query and disrupt the artistic canon by placing their or the “othered” bodies in sites of unmarked and “normalized” bodies. I also refer these appropriations a unique moment when the unmarked becomes marked—the constructedness and illusoriness of the “normalcy” of the body is made particularly apparent in these defamilirized situations. Furthermore, appropriation can be considered a form of intertextuality; consequently, this strategy also reveals how narratives are constructed and referenced culturally and socially.
I argue that appropriation, as re-contextualization and RE-presentation, has the potential to deconstruct, destabilize and subvert medical notions, as well as conventional myths about the body.
Artists discussed: Mary Duffy, Alison Lapper, Joel-Peter Witkin, Hannah Wilke, Jo Spence, Katarzyna Kozyra, Matuschka.
This presentation will review and critique, from a critical disability studies perspective and an artistic standpoint the current Frida Kahlo Centennial Exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art which runs from February 20-May 18, 2008. This exhibition of art is extremely signficant to multiple and intersecting communities that involve feminism, disability, Latino and GLBTQ issues and the artworld. Moreover, it is the first major Kahlo exhibition in the United States in the last 15 years, it celebrates the 100th anniversary of her birth, and presents 40 of the artist's most important self-portraits.
Kahlo, whose audience reaches far beyond the scope of the typical art audience becomes a key figure in disability representation. In an exhibit where the majority of the visitors are not well versed in art history, they rely on the exhibit's accompanying text to learn about the artist and also to lead them through the museum space. The text becomes the expert voice to the masses and therefore a critical part of future dialog surrounding the artist. Because the images created by Kahlo and her personal personal life are so completely intertwined, the language used by the curators of this exhibit become the way the larger population comes to understand her and her disability.
hrough an interdisciplinary lens—of both art and disability—I will explore how the exhibit portrays disability in order to decipher whether these museum representations are aligned with or work against Kahlo's own representations of herself. In addition, I will be analyzing how Kahlo's self reprentation of a disabled woman aligns with disability attitudes of her day and also compare her presentation against the current language and attitudes embraced by today's disability rights movement.
For the past few decades, disability scholars have evaluated a number of cinematic and literary sources in an effort to determine what affect the media has on the common understandings of disability. Norden (1994) and Longmore (1985) have been among the most noted proponents of these studies, at least, those done for film and television. Theatrically Lewis (2006) has contributed a great deal, and certainly Mitchell & Snyder (2000) have offered us an intriguing framework from which to work. Missing, however from the recent scholarship is significant study of Shakespearean texts.
While Shakespearean texts may not represent the beginning of literary history, these texts remain important because of their continued place in the literary canon of many high schools and universities. Also, it seems odd that disability scholars have largely ignored this body of work with a few notable exceptions, especially when several other areas of scholarship based in identity politics have addressed several plays in great detail.
his presentation will point out some ways that the lens of Disability Studies can be used to view Shakespearean texts, by isolating particular scenes and themes present in Shakespeare's work. The physicality of disability may be different, but the frameworks of oppression can certainly be witnessed, and persons looking for a starting point for the hegemonic practices that occur today find solid evidence here. My contention, however, remains an optimistic one - that by changing the way we view these texts, we can begin to dismantle the stereotypical and oppressive behaviors that we find so troubling.
11:45-12:30 Lunch (will be provided)
12:30-1:45 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Betweenity: A Theory and Practice for Disability Studies
Brenda Brueggemann, Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of the American Sign Language Program and the Disability Studies Program, Ohio State University
This presentation will explore the development of a theoretical and practical approach to "betweenity"--a space, it is argued, that is often occupied by people with disabilities and now, as well, by disability studies. The between space as one of both longing and belonging, a place simultaneously anxious and meaningful. Illustrated in this presentation are some of the between spaces occupied by disability/disability studies/people with disabilities in: the larger sphere of history; the academy; the politics of naming and claiming identity/ies; technologies of communication, mobility, and medicine; audiences, both potential and real.
Introduced by: Beth Ferri
1:45-3:00 Theoretical Innovations: Moving Beyond the Disabled Body
Moderator: Liat Ben-Moshe
In the 1980s, the disability movement gave birth to disability studies perspectives based on a transformative revaluation of the category of “disability.” These assemblages of power-knowledge have created new spaces within academia by serving as both radical critiques and alternatives to medical perspectives, whose pathologization of disability entails wide-ranging negative social and political consequences.
The “psychiatric survivor” or “Mad pride” movement has, analogously, given birth to what I suggest should henceforth be referred to as “Mad studies” perspectives based on a transformative revaluation of the category of “Madness.” The point I wish to make here is that the particularities of surviving—living on—as psychiatrized people are not adequately reflected by a generalized concept of “disability.” Just as Deaf studies has claimed spaces at least partially autonomous from those of disability studies, so Mad studies requires its own partially autonomous spaces. The purpose of these other spaces is not to fracture disability studies into multiple, discrete disciplines. Instead, the power-knowledge assemblages of Deaf studies and Mad studies need to develop on the basis of their specificities, in addition to exploring communalities under the over-arching heading of disability studies.
iving the name “Mad studies” to certain perspectives is intended to set a minimum threshold for academic investigations to be considered as offering radical critiques and alternatives to psychiatric, psychotherapeutic, and psychological perspectives, whose pathologization of madness as “mental illness” entails wide-ranging negative social and political consequences. For example, it is a crucial of Mad studies to recognize and interrogate the ways in which people in the psych professions have augmented their personal status and income through the oppression and impoverishment of psychiatrized people.
This paper explores a history of the Queen Street mental health site in Toronto, Ontario. I argue that the building of Ontario's first asylum space in 1850 was a result of moral interventions enacted on mad degenerate populations in order to build Canada as a respectable nation. I trace how the site became and has remained a “problem” space in public discourse, legitimizing the heavy surveillance and policing of the buildings and bodies that populate the site. I show how the constant spatial reconstructions of the buildings over the years have been in response to a site thought to be leaking degeneracy into the innocent local neighbourhood that it borders. My talk closes with an analysis of the recent proposed redevelopment of the Queen Street site, a twenty-first century multi-million dollar re-visioning of the site that contributes to the never-ending project of attempting to spatially regulate and contain madness.
As the global industrial empire becomes that much more entrenched in our daily lives, we have to find forms of resistance and more importantly lenses to critique its ever growing tentacles of industrial complexes such as the medical and prison, which has an institutional spinning door for hundreds of millions of people on an annual global basis. In this interdisciplinary article the author critiques normalcy, which is promoted through capitalism and other systems of domination and strategies of repression. Disability pedagogy, the lens that the author has chosen to take on such a task, of dissecting normalcy, while young in its field has a loud voice and rigorous bite. Normalcy a social construction is promoted by the same vicious global empire that other repressive social constructed binaries are created from that keep the elite in control and dominate, while exploiting and marginalizing the Other, the abnormal, the exotic, the sinner, and the ill. While this article will focus on disability pedagogy, through the author’s personal experiences, Nocella will address issues of race, class, gender, age, and culture. Nocella states in his article, “to say that the individual is of one identity is completely false; this is the same fundamental problem with essentialism;” therefore in conclusion, we must build and understand the importance of alliance politics.
Historically, deficit models of autism portrayed autistic individuals as cognitively impaired in understanding and relating to the world. Autistic individuals' cognitive strengths (ex. focusing interest intensely) were ignored or mischaracterized under deficit models (ex. passions were viewed as detracting obsessions). Most academic studies of autism continue to reflect these deficit models.
However, in the last decade neurodiversity models of autism have emerged as an alternative to deficit models. Neurodiversity models maintain that autistic individuals have a diverse group of strengths and challenges in three domains: a) language, communication, and social understanding; b) sensory integration and motor skills; and c) executive functioning. Under a neurodiversity perspective, most challenges for autistic individuals result from living in a non-autistic world that is sensory overloading, socially nuanced, and information demanding. Neurodiversity adopts a social model of disability by asserting that society (not autistic neurological differences) often becomes the disabler for autistic individuals. (Sinclair, 2005; Bagatell, 2007; Robertson, 2007; Waltz, 2005)
Neurodiversity models also oppose the deficit models' emphasis on fixing an autistic individual. Neurodiversity instead seeks to expand communities' understanding and acceptance of autism, establish societal disability accommodations, and empower autistic individuals as self-determined advocates. (Waltz, 2005; Clarke, 2007; Robertson, 2007)
Despite the deficit models' entrenched position, neurodiversity models have increasingly gained traction among disability studies researchers and others in academia during the last four years (e.g. Bagatell, 2004; Bagatell, 2007; Baker, 2004; Brownlow & O'Dell, 2006; Brownlow, 2007; Chamak, 2008; Clarke, 2007; Waltz, 2005). These researchers have recognized that autistic individuals through self-advocacy initiatives and community connections (online and offline) have developed the beginnings of a disability culture that parallels and draws inspiration from the deaf culture and the LGBT culture (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered). Anthropologically, cultures typically share several major attributes, such as: a) philosophies, b) organizations and group identity, c) dialects and language, d) events, and e) art and literary works.
The autistic self-advocate community has founded numerous autistic-run support and advocacy organizations (ex. Autism Network International, The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network) and established recurring national and international autistic events, gatherings, and campaigns (ex. Autistic Pride Day in June, the Autreat and Autscape annual conferences). Members of the autistic community have developed shared terminology (ex. neurotypical, autistics and cousins, aspies, auties) and literary work and art (ex. artwork through The Autism Acceptance Project). They have adopted a shared orientation to autism through neurodiversity and jointly challenged stereotyped and misconceived perceptions of autism and autistic individuals, while advocating for increased understanding and support by society.
By many accounts, the autistic community constitutes a growing disability culture whose support derives in large part from online technology integrators (ex. email lists, websites, instant messaging, etc.) that provide natural affordances for autistic individuals, such as fewer nonverbal cue demands, logical and systematic information structure, and lack of auditory processing. (Robertson, 2007; Sinclair, 2005; Kalioby, Picard, & Baren-Cohen, 2006; Brownlow, 2007) This autistic culture will grow as online and offline connections expand and transform autistic individuals' relationships with each other, non-autistic allies, and researchers.
3:15-4:30 (Post) Identity, identification and Politics
Moderator: Beth Ferri
From Aristotle to Rousseau to Nussbaum, pity is typically framed in Western philosophy as a virtue to be cultivated in a person or society's character. And yet, so often, people who are on the receiving end of pity see it as anything but virtuous. Drawing especially from philosophers in the Continental tradition, this paper seeks to explore the disconnect between notions of pity as a virtue that is central to a moral life as opposed to a harm felt by one who is experiencing pity. In particular, it will be argued pity is not so much an emotion as it is a power relation and implicit judgment that creates and is created by social institutions. That is, by understanding pity as rooted in a power differential and accompanying judgment, we can understand how pity can be viewed simultaneously as a virtue by the pitier and a harm by the pitiful, all amidst the same social backdrop.
First, pity will be defined as a power relation and set of judgments and briefly contrasted with similar concepts like empathy and compassion. Next, a theory that builds upon this definition - and the work of several historical and contemporary philosophers - will be offered to explain how it is that pity harms the person being pitied. Specifically, it will be argued that pity is not an isolated harmful act but an overtly social harm because of its role as a cause and as an effect of social institutions that reproduce the “ideology of pity” and the oppressions this ideology perpetuates. Finally, developing and deploying this theoretical framework, this paper will seek to show how the ideology of pity is a false form of understanding that obscures oppression with the guise of virtue, as pity constructs and is constructed by our social institutions. Throughout the analysis, it will be argued that this misunderstanding of pity is a particularly dangerous notion for people with disabilities because of the way pity often defines the social environment in which disability is articulated, understood, organized, and experienced.
This presentation is an attempt to explore the complex relationship between identity/ability-based activism and theory in a postmodern, postidentity context. Perhaps early, universalizing identity/ability-based movements assuming stable race, class, and gender identities could claim a wide relevance of agendas, oblivious to the in-“visibility” and marginalization of some within their own ranks who did not fit assumptions about inclusion. As postmodern, poststructuralist, and postcolonial critiques arose, established movements faced the opportunity to confront and assimilate such critiques while retaining an identity-core in some ways. Queer Theory, Disability Studies, and Crip Theory might be considered “post-” emergent disciplines, in that their theoretical bases have included late twentieth-century postmodern critiques even as they support identity/ability-based cultures and activist coalitions. The result seems to be a wry consciousness of the complications of intersectionality.
Acts of resistance are often accompanied by rhetorical attempts to shift the ground, to re-appropriate (for instance) figures and terms, or to replace culturally embedded figures with new images and new words. Social justice can be furthered by paying attention to difference and by coalition-building that is based on shared experiences and issues. However, when activisms are ability/identity-based - (e.g. “race politics,” “queer activism,” “disability studies,” “feminist critique”) the identity that starts as a marker for shared experience and motivates a logic for social/political critique may become a simple model synonymous with a set of goals, and, often, with a stereotypic figure representing identity/ability in the public imagination. When intersecting identities become adjectives (e.g. the handicapped man or woman, the blind mother, the transgender Deaf) the attempt to complicate identity can itself underline the marginalization of another identity/ability-based group.
Postidentity movements must avoid reconstructing a monolithic universalist argument on yet another set of grounds, for they argue for their existence in a more complicated locus, in the interstices and intersections between established awarenesses of race-, class-, and gender-based oppression. What is the cost of this avoidance? What can be gained? What is possible, when human ability/identity is so unstable, and yet so tangibly important to activist goals?
Hermaphrodites Speak! is a documentary produced by the Intersex Society of North America (ISNA) that foregrounds how the lived experiences and cultural identities of its intersexed participants have been negatively impacted by normalizing genital surgeries intended to make them look like the genitals of either of the two currently recognized sexes. The film has two particularly visible elements - the importance for intersexed people of coming out of the “intersexual” closet into the public and meeting other people who are intersexed; and the anger, irony and wry humor about their subjection to, and the effects of, these normalizing surgeries.
This paper is an attempt to clarify the film's distinctive meaning and politics in relation to its articulation and construction of an intersexed identity and community. Drawing from current debates in identity politics, this paper particularly aims to situate the film's meanings and politics in relation to the opposing logics of, on the one hand, the impulse “to build a collective identity with distinct group boundaries,” and on the other, to “take apart the identity categories that blur group boundaries.” In analyzing Hermaphrodites Speak! within the context of this debate, I will argue that the film lends credence to the idea that the logics of both make sense. It aims to demonstrate that Hermaphrodites Speak articulates a rights based claim to self-determination on behalf of an intersexed identity, the content of which, in fact, is in continual flux as it finds variable, diverse, and even contradictory, expressions between one intersexed embodiment and another.
This paper uses feminist disability studies theory to explore the discursive production of fat embodiment within contemporary Western society. In particular, I examine beauty and medicine as fields of knowledge which create and sustain bodily norms, representations and practices. I ask the following questions: What are the social meanings and values inscribed on fat bodies, and how are these gendered? What do these tell us about bodily norms and ideals? Specifically, I examine the representation of women's (fat) embodiment through a textual analysis of the promotional material and orientation manual at Curves, a well-known women's gym. I show that Curves implicitly references wider health and medical discourses, and specifically that of the “obesity epidemic,” to characterize fatness as pathology and thereby requiring intervention through physical fitness in order to return the body to health and normalcy. Through this analysis, I demonstrate that fatness is not a value neutral embodiment but is socially produced. By bringing together disability studies and fat studies, I highlight the importance of dialogue between disciplines and social movements, and reveal how different forms of oppression and discourse interlock to create normative understandings of embodiment. I argue that by re-reading fatness we can resist these normative demands and begin to imagine ways of desiring embodied difference.
CART will be provided. For other questions or access needs including accessible parking please contact Jessica at jkbacon@syr.edu
This conference is sponsored by the Beyond Compliance Coordinating Committee (BCCC), the Center on Human Policy, Law, and Disability Studies, Writing Program and Composition and Cultural Rhetoric Program
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Acropolis Pizza House
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Starbucks
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