In the Fall 2023 course Feminist Disability Studies (WGSS 3257), students learned all about how disability is a social and political category, charted how some of the beginnings of the field of disability studies could be found in feminist scholarship, and how the merging and cross-pollination of feminist scholarship and disability studies has changed over time. One of the most important aspects of the course was the idea that disability intersects with all other social categories (race, gender, class, sexuality and so on) and that systems of ableism, or the devaluation of disabled people and people with bodies deemed “unproductive,” work in concert with other ideologies of oppression.
For their final project, students were asked to consider something in their own lives when it came to disability. They were given flexibility to explore any experiences with or knowledge of disability and/or ableism in their lives. The results were these wonderful, personal explorations from poetry to analysis, to collage and more. I could not be prouder!
Professor Laura Mauldin, UConn
- It’s Time to Recognize Eating Disorders as Disabilities by A.C.
- Vapo-Rub Can’t Cure Everything: Perceptions of Disability in the Mexican-American Community by D.L.H.
- Student Accommodation Plan by D.P.
- The Decade Since Diagnosis by Emma Chamberlin
- Language Barrier by Eun Sok Hong
- Black Women with Disabilities by Iris Elena Jordan
- Messages by Jess Leach
- Two Shades of Yellow by Sha Jameson
Disability & Access Collective 