Different battles, same war? Cripping youth and adulthood?
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Different battles, same war?Cripping youth and adulthood?
Jenny SlaterMMU/SHU
Youth
Disability
Adulthood
Independence
Whilst independence remains the goal, disabled people will not be accepted as they serve as a reminder of the potential for dependence
Hughes, 2001; Davis, 2002; Ware, 2005; Shildrick, 2009
Body as Organism
Body without Organs(BwO)
Deleuze and GuattariGibson, 2006; Gibson, Carnevale and Kind, 2012; Goodley, 2007; 2009; Shildrick, 2009; Slater, 2012
Jen as Body as Organism
Jen as Body without Organs
A Critically Young Positionality
1. Vigilant to and questioning of adulthood normativity
2. Shouting about my own grownup failures
“Thought together, queer theory, disability, and Deleuze mobilise a productive positivity that overcomes normative binaries, breaks with stable identity, and celebrates the erotics of connection” (Shildrick, 2009, 54)
Not becoming-adult
BUT
‘becoming-in-the-world-together’
(with Jen and her disabled peers)
“to reject this paradoxical liberty is one thing; not to be granted it is another” (Garland-Thompson, 2002, 24)
Freyja and the high-heeled shoes
Interviewer: So I see you’re disabled: what would you actually do here?
Freyja: I’d do what the job specification requires of me: I’d look after the children.
Interviewer: But how?
Freyja: My assistants do the physical stuff I can’t, while I did the more emotional side of it. To kids, it just isn’t a problem.
Different battles, same war?
A call to arms!
Free us all from playing grownup