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My textile-essay, "Autoimmune: A 'Medicinal History,'" was published in Disability Studies Quarterly. Since I was not allowed to include acknowledgements in the published version, I'm going to do that here instead. Thank you to my mum, Ayesha Khan, for the idea of making a doll, and to my Oma, Henny Khan, for teaching me how to sew. A big thank you to Lzz Johnk, my mad kin, who gave me the courage to call myself mad in the first place. I am also grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their thoughtful engagement and generative feedback.
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"[T]hey seem to remain ignorant of the fact that we have histories and cultures and skills and visions, and that if we’re going to survive the Trumpocalypse and make the new world emerge, our work needs to be cripped the fuck out." - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work (pg. 124) Lzz Johnk and I published an article, "'Cripping the Fuck Out:' A Queer Crip Mad Manifesta Against the Medical Industrial Complex" in Feral Feminisms 9.
Our manifesta consists of a scripted conversation between Doctor and patient critiquing the pathologizing rhetorics that are inherent to the Medical Industrial Complex. It began as a performance piece that we presented at the 37th Annual Gender Studies Symposium at Lewis and Clark College. We talk a little about the process of writing and performing this piece in the Afterword, so I won't say too much here. Suffice it to say, it was a lot of fun to co-create and share this piece with Lzz. Note: This post is back-dated to the time of article's publication in August 2019. |
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