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Disability and/in/through Fanfiction
Vol. 8 No. 2 (2019)Disability and/in/through Fanfiction includes a mix of academic articles, based on research and scholarship, reflections on how disability manifests in fannish spaces, a documentary film, and fanfiction narratives. All are imbued with disabled fan sensibilities and perspectives.
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Cripping the Arts in Canada
Vol. 8 No. 1 (2019)Disability arts are political. Disability arts are vital to the disabled people’s movement for how they imagine and perpetuate both new understandings of disability, Deafhood, and madness/Mad-identity and create new worldly arrangements that can hold, centre, and even desire such understandings. Critically led by disabled, mad, and Deaf people, disability art is a burgeoning artistic practice in Canada that takes the experience of disability as a creative entry point.
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Telling Ourselves Sideways, Crooked and Crip
Vol. 5 No. 3 (2016)Stories about us are boring. As predictable and ubiquitous as they are dangerous, normate narrations of our lives are as straight as they come: one-dimensional narratives of tragic loss and/or progressive normativity. We are dying or overcoming. We become a burden or an inspiration. We desire vindication or marriage. Our entire narrative worlds are defined by our Otherness, yet revolve around the normates and the normative. These stories cut straight to the point, using—and used as—well-steeped, easily readable metaphors bolstered by the requisite piano-based musical cues. If we didn’t know us better, we would bore us.
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Cripping Cyberspace: A Contemporary Virtual Art Exhibition Curated by Amanda Cachia
Vol. 2 No. 4 (2013)Cripping Cyberspace: A Contemporary Virtual Art Exhibition is an online exhibition curated by Amanda Cachia. Cripping Cyberspace offers four diverse, newly commissioned projects, exploring the possibilities the virtual platform offers to pave critical space for the disabled subject. This exhibit has been designed to allow for multiple avenues of access: the video interviews or audio descriptions, their transcripts, the artists' statements, the critical perspectives, and the art itself should be seen as equal and integral tools for the cripping of cyberspace.
List of Works
Katherine Araniello, Sick Bitch Crip Dance, 2013
Cassandra Hartblay, Do You Like This Installation? 2013
Sara Hendren, Slope : Audio, 2013
m.i.a. collective, Virtual Poster Series, ViP #1. Traffic Lights, 2013
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Disability Mediations
Vol. 1 No. 2 (2012)This theme issue of the CJDS interrogates "mediations" of disability -- how disability is represented from within and without, through and across the media.