Disability Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/section/disability/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:18:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Disability Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/section/disability/ 32 32 Speak, Mario? https://www.publicbooks.org/speak-mario/ Wed, 05 Feb 2025 16:00:54 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=58858 If video games work generally as showcases of players’ ability, then why has the ability to speak fluently been relatively unnecessary for the medium’s icons?

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]]> What If the Body Politic Kept the Score? https://www.publicbooks.org/what-if-the-body-politic-kept-the-score/ Wed, 11 Dec 2024 16:00:18 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=58342 Bringing story and social action back into the healing process is the unfinished work of addressing existential suffering.

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]]> Stomaching Wellness https://www.publicbooks.org/stomaching-wellness/ Wed, 25 Sep 2024 15:00:46 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=57348 “The wellness industry’s promotion and legitimization of ableist self-perceptions makes it an especially dangerous force in the lives of the chronically ill.”

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]]> Heal Thyself? https://www.publicbooks.org/heal-thyself/ Wed, 04 Oct 2023 15:00:14 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=53289 How do current social and political arrangements limit our opportunities for feeling better?

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]]> Public Thinker: Jaipreet Virdi on Disability History & Deaf Futures https://www.publicbooks.org/public-thinker-jaipreet-virdi-on-disability-history-deaf-futures/ Tue, 08 Nov 2022 16:00:52 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=50721 “Disabled people have long made their own hacks.”

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]]> What Future for Health Activism? https://www.publicbooks.org/what-future-for-health-activism/ Thu, 03 Nov 2022 15:00:38 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=50686 A more critical consciousness of the connections between family, health, race, and gender was brewing among food allergy advocates in the exceptionally catastrophic summer of 2020.

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]]> Spatial Abolition and Disability Justice https://www.publicbooks.org/spatial-abolition-and-disability-justice/ Wed, 05 May 2021 15:00:49 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=42901 Revealing the multiple histories of disability justice can expand how we think of and design the places we build.

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]]> “I Can’t Make You See What I See”: Talking with Cyree Jarelle Johnson and Jesse Rice-Evans https://www.publicbooks.org/i-cant-make-you-see-what-i-see-talking-with-cyree-jarelle-johnson-and-jesse-rice-evans/ Mon, 27 Apr 2020 15:00:27 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=35511 "Writing about lupus is like writing about ghosts. What do you say about something featureless?" [none-for-homepage]

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]]> We Must Heal Each Other https://www.publicbooks.org/we-must-heal-each-other/ Fri, 14 Feb 2020 16:00:43 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=34040 At some point, it became a mark of privilege to talk about “self-care.” Once unknown outside the niches of trauma therapists and burned-out activists, the concept has become so mainstream that it’s now regularly used as shorthand for celebrity beauty routines. Meanwhile, corporate elites promote self-care among employees in hopes of cutting their losses in […]

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]]> Autism Aesthetics https://www.publicbooks.org/autism-aesthetics/ Mon, 23 Sep 2019 15:00:05 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=30759 About 10 years ago, I began to get impatient with disability studies. The field was still relatively young, but it seemed devoted almost entirely to analyzing how disability was represented—in art, in culture, in politics, et cetera—especially in the case of physical disability. This, I thought, fell short of the field’s promise for literary studies. […]

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