DisAppearing

Tanya Titchkosky teaches Disability Studies in the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, as well as in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto. She is a member of the Women and Gender Studies Institute of U of T, and of the Honorary Research Association of the University of New Brunswick. Elaine Cagulada is a PhD candidate in disability studies within OISE's Department of Social Justice Education at the University of Toronto. Madeleine DeWelles is a PhD candidate in disability studies and is influenced and guided by childhood studies, phenomenology, and interpretive sociology. E Efrat Gold is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto, engaging in mad and disability studies.

• Alternative Thematic Table of ContentsList of FiguresForeword, by Rod MichalkoIntroductionPart I: DisAppearing DisAbility: Demonstrations in Theory and PracticeEditors' IntroductionChapter 1: Disappearing Promises: The University's Unfortunate Framing of Disability, by Tanya TitchkoskyChapter 2: Nativity, by Hanna HerdegenChapter 3: Navigating Borderlands: Deaf and Hearing Experiences in Post-Secondary Education, by Sammy Jo Johnson & Sarah BeckChapter 4: Let Me Hear You Say Black Lives Matter, by Thomas ReidPart II: DisAppearing DisEmbodimentEditors' IntroductionChapter 5: Between Peace and Disturbance: Anorexia, Control, and Embodiment, by Madeleine DeWellesChapter 6: Disabling Curricular Encounters: The Barriers in Barrier-Free Access, by Maria KarmirisChapter 7: Ghosts, Mice, and Robots: Disappearing the Autistic Person, by Helen Rottier, Ben Pfingston, & Josh GubermanChapter 8: Performing Dyslexia in Contemporary Japan, by Satsuki KawanoChapter 9: Tuning Goes Frig, by Sid GhoshPart III: DisAppearing DramaEditors' IntroductionChapter 10: Blind Perception: DisAppearing Blindness … with a Twist, by Devon HealeyChapter 11: Embracing the Gesture: A Dance of the Ordinary and its Extra, by Jose Miguel EstebanChapter 12: Shapeshifting: Navigating the Social Construction of Multiple Disability Identities, by Steve SingerChapter 13: Charles Darwin and Me/Chronic Illness Dictionary, by Diane DriedgerPart IV: DisAppearing Departures, Diagnoses, and DeathEditors' IntroductionChapter 14: The Impositions of Forgotten Wor(l)ds: Rehabilitation and Memory Loss, by Lindsay GravelleChapter 15: The DisAppearances of Deafness in Early Childhood Diagnostic and Intervention Practices, by Tracey EdelistChapter 16: Diagnosing Despair: Constructing Experience through Psychiatric Hegemony, by Efrat Gold & Sharry TaylorChapter 17: An Autist Amongst Exceptionalities, by Joey TavaresChapter 18: Disappearing Disability: Disability MAiD Invisible, by Nancy HansenChapter 19: The Pill Box Shuffle, by Leanne Toshiko SimpsonPart V: DisAppearing DreamsEditors' IntroductionChapter 20: The Infinity of the Encounter: Deafness, Disability, Race, and the Sound of Re-Story, by Elaine CaguladaChapter 21: "Where are the goddamn pens?": And Other Disappearances in Writing Intellectual Disability, by Chelsea Temple JonesChapter 22: Are You My Homi? Close (Autistic) Encounters of the Third Kind, by Maya ChacabyChapter 23: Magic Wand, by Lynn ManningContributor BiographiesIndex