With its reimagining of the body, FDS also provides an opportunity to reimagine the social model of disability. The body, then, becomes central to analyses of oppression and a reimagining of our social, cultural, and political relationships to the body. In the introduction to her collection, Kim Hall describes FDS as a complex framework that “make visible the historical and ongoing interrleationship between all forms of oppressions” (4), particularly as these oppressions are rooted in bodily difference. Rosemarie Garland-Thomson describes this resistance as an assumption of niche interest groups that is, people assume that feminist theory and disability studies are too narrow to contribute to mainstream academic practices and knowledge-making (14).įDS offers an intersectional and transformative approach for thinking about embodiment. And as disciplines, both encounter academic resistance. The overlaps between the interests of feminist theory and disability studies are clear: both are concerned with oppression (sexism and ableism), centralizing marginalized identities, creating alternative or counter-discursive understandings and knowledge, and connecting theory and activism. Feminist Disability Studies edited by Kim Q. I certainly don’t exact understandings now, but it’s getting clearer. Until this semester, though, I didn’t really have a context for this work-no clear understandings of how FDS functions as a discipline that does more than combine feminist theory and disability studies. I was immediately drawn to the interrogation of power and privilege, the importance of respecting rather than erasing differences, and the emphasis on contextualizing disability and gender within other contexts of race, class, and nationality. My first encounter with FDS was with Kristina Knoll’s articulation of what an FDS pedagogy looks like. A couple weeks ago, I wrote a paper attempting to map out some of the theoretical components and constraints of FDS, and since then, I’ve been stewing over what I think it is– How is FDS useful as a discipline, a methodology, or even a pedagogy? Last week, I got to talk to a fellow graduate student about Feminist Disability Studies (FDS), which was awesome. One of the things I like best about working at SU’s Writing Center is that students schedule their appointments online, so sometimes you get to work with someone who chose you because your academic interests mesh.
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