Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Entering the Field / Michelle Jarman and Leila Monaghan
Part I - Laying The Groundwork
I.1 From Poison Ivy to Live Oak: How Transferring Colleges Changed My Perception of Disability / Alyse Ritvo
I.2 Speaking Madness / Shayda Kafai
I.3 Transitioning from One Culture to Another / Anmol Bhatia
I.4 Growing Up with ADHD / Joshua Phelps
I.5 Disability and Sports / Christopher Weingardt
I.6 Contours of Ableism and Transforming a Disabled Life / Zachary A. Richter
I.7 I Can Dance! / Suzi Vee
Part II - Families, Adaptive Living, And Reorienting Expectations
II.1 Life Given and Memory Lost / Mycie Lubin
II.2 Beating the Odds: Life with an Invisible and Chronic Disability / Elizabeth Allyn Campbell
II.3 Benjamin Is Benjamin / Joanne De Simone
II.4 Conversation with a Mother and Son: An Interview / Tricia Black, Michael Black, and Leila Monaghan
II.5 Taking Disability One Stage at a Time (unless They Attack You All at Once) / Christina Spence
II.6 My Brother’s Traumatic Brain Injury and Its Effect on Me / Douglas Kidd
Part III - Disability And Communication
III.1 Voicing Disability with Disabled Voices: Reimagining a Stuttered Identity / Joshua St. Pierre
III.2 Fibromyalgia Syndrome / Catherine Graves
III.3 ASL in a Hearing World / Blake Culley
III.4 Bumping into Things while Treading Carefully: On Narrative, Blindness, and Longing for Light / Tasha Chemel
III.5 What I Wish You Would Ask: Conversations about Cerebral Palsy / Leigh A. Neithardt
III.6 Take a Second Look / Leslie Johnson Elliott
Part IV - Mapping Complex Relations
IV.1 My Name is Anna / Anna Roach
IV.2 Living Blind / Caitlin Hernandez
IV.3 Shades of Shame / Emily K. Michael
IV.4 Abandoning Normalcy / Garret R. Cruzan
IV.5 A Quiet Conflict: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder / Michael T. Salter
IV.6 Brother and Sister in Arms / Rachel Anderson
Part V - Identity, Resistance, And Community
V.1 Disability, Belonging, Pride / Allegra Heath-Stout
V.2 Deconstructing “Accessible” Education in Academia / Nancy La Monica
V.3 Fake It until You Make It (or until You Find Your Place) / Megan L. Coggins
V.4 My Anxiety / Susan Macri
V.5 Disability, the Lure of Escapism, and Making the Invisible Visible / Suzanne Walker
V.6 Discovering My Deaf Identity / Denton Mallas
Part VI - Theories And Lives
VI.1 Taking Great Pains with Disability Theory / Adena Rottenstein
VI.2 Medicating My Socially Constructed Disability / Cindee Calton
VI.3 Flourishing with Polio: A Spiritual, Transformational, and Disability Studies Perspective / Rodney B. Hume-Dawson
VI.4 Learning to See Myself in the Mirror / Adam P. Newman
VI.5 Writing Myself into Madness and Disability Studies / Rebekah Moras
VI.6 Autism Isn’t Speaking: Autistic Subversion in Media and Public Policy / Lydia X. Z. Brown
Afterword: Negotiating the Future / Leila Monaghan
Index