Paul D. C. Bones, Ph.D. (2015), University of Oklahoma, is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Texas Woman’s University. He has published articles and book chapters on disability, hate crime, and criminology. This includes a recent article on access and accommodation during COVID-19 published in Socius (2021).Jessica Smartt Gullion, Ph.D. (2002), Texas Woman's University, is the Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor of Sociology at that university. She has published extensively in medical sociology and qualitative research methodology, including the award-winning Diffractive Ethnography: Social Sciences and the Ontological Turn (Routledge, 2018).Danielle Barber, M.S. (2018), Texas Woman's University, is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at that university. She conducts research on health and illness and on disability.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionPaul D. C. Bones, Jessica Smartt Gullion and Danielle Barber1 Existing in a Mortal Form and Other Disabling ExperiencesE. J. K. Brimner and R. McGuire2 Disabled Humans and Our Non-Human Animal CompanionsPaul D. C. BonesPet Profile: CharlieAparna Nair3 Disability Discourse Stuck in a Black/White Binary: Embodying a Black and Disabled Identity as a Mixed-Race PersonCassandra Lovelock4 Plum Tomato: Solanum lycopersicumEllen Samuels5 Disability Aesthetics: A Crip Artistry ManifestoAurora Berger6 Life on the LineAurora Berger7 Finding My Way in a Society Where I Don’t FitJill RichardsonPet Profile: MacValerie and Chase Novack8 Misfit in the Academy: Succeeding as a Visually Impaired Scholar in AustraliaSheelagh Daniels-MayesPet Profile: MudkipAri9 Justice vs. Injustice: Poetic Dialogue about the Meaning of Disability Justice among People Labelled/with Intellectual DisabilityAnonymous, Anonymous, Anonymous, Nicholas Herd, Anonymous, Doreen Kalifer, with support from Erin Kuri and Ann Fudge Schormans10 Inspiration Porn and Desperation Porn: Disrupting the Objectification of Disability in MediaKara B. Ayers and Katherine A. ReedPet Profile: ScribblesMelanie Coughlin11 Tap Tap TapMarie Gagnon12 Adaptation from the Margins: Toward a Crip TheatreChristopher BryantPet Profile: PepperBrian13 Diagnosis LimboDanielle BarberPet Profile: Luther & LaylaDanielle Barber14 Successful SadVanessa EllisonPet Profile: MonkeyEmily Dall’Ora Warfield15 Ddeaf Adjacency: Liminal Conditions of Not HearingMegan Marshall16 S-I-L-I-C-O-N-E Inject-Ear | Silicone Injections: In American Sign Language (ASL) Gloss and EnglishRaymond Luczak17 Utensils and FireJessica Spears Williams18 Seeing Brains: Shakespeare, Autism, and Self-IdentificationNicholas R. HelmsPet Profile: Pike TricklegLauren (aka L.W. Salinas)19 Hot Girl Bummer: Achieving Disabled Sexual Liberation in an Ableist WorldKatherine O’ConnellPet Profile: AbacusKimberly C. Merenda20 Selected PoemsJessi AaronPet Profile: Opal, Orbit, & RubyAubree Evans21 Maybe Do Talk to Strangers on the Internet? An Interview with Corin de Parsons FrietasCorin Parsons de Frietas (with Paul D. C. Bones)Pet Profile: Finn & BearCorin Parsons de Freitas22 Finding Empowerment in the Middle: Navigating Hidden Disabilities in AcademiaSummer M. JacksonPet Profile: Rocko (More Formally Known as Rocko Taco)Summer M. Jackson23 Taking Center Stage in the Face of Shame and ScarsJasmine (Jaz) GrayPet Profile: Aisling & TrutheJennifer Stahl24 Assistive Tech, Assertive TechCole Sorensen25 Modern Day Changelings: On Being an Autistic Parent of an Autistic ChildAlison Kelly26 Stone, Water, Land, SpineElizabeth GlassPet Profile: Maximus Aurelius Gullion, Guardian of the Realm, Slayer of Demons, Friend to Unicorn and Dragon, Defender of Squeaky Toys & Spartacus the MightyJessica Smartt Gullion27 Cancer Isn’t Like a Movie, But If It Was It’d Be a Horror FlickTerri Juneau EklundPet Profile: Bacon & PancakeTerri Juneau Eklund28 “It’s Meant to Be a Hazing Process”: Deciphering Ableism Surrounding Academic AccommodationsCorey ReutlingerPet Profile: Captain Jack Harkness & Pippa Millicent Tiny PantherTara Elliot29 Night of the Living Ableds: Disability, Representation, and Horror FilmPaul D. C. BonesPet Profile: Mildred Sausage, Allan Hamsteak, & Inara BaconPaul D. C. Bones30 A Bright Green: After Lou Ferrigno, A Deaf Bodybuilder Who Played the Incredible Hulk (1977–1982)Raymond Luczak31 ManifestoThe Committee for the Sick and Useless

Praise for Redefining Disability:Redefining Disability offers a unique and vivid combination of lucid explanations and evocative accounts. Featuring essay, narrative, poetry, and photography, this outstanding collection opens a creative window into the richness of disabled experience and calls out systemic ableism that radically diminishes the lives of disabled folks. This provocative, insightful book is essential reading for anyone committed to the work of inclusivity, diversity, equity, and access. - Laura L. Ellingson, PhD, Patrick A. Donohoe, S.J. Professor of Communication, Santa Clara University and author of Embodiment in Qualitative ResearchRedefining Disability brilliantly takes readers on a tour through disabled people's lives. It skillfully talks frankly and directly to readers through a delightful array of short and pithy chapters covering expansive topics such as disability and pets, the COVID-19 pandemic, disclosure in higher ed, and being chronically ill. There are photographs and poems, short essays and longer ones. It’s at times emotionally raw and other times fun. To make this book extra-teachable, each chapter ends with discussion questions. A celebration of the act of telling disabled people’s stories, Redefining Disability is a must-read. - Laura Mauldin, PhD, NIC, Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut and author of Made to Hear: Cochlear Implants and Raising Deaf ChildrenRedefining Disability is a collection 100% shaped by disabled people, not just through the individual chapters and the perspectives contained in the book, but all the way through editing and indexing. The book takes aim at ableism and discrimination against disabled people through critique, with humour, with powerful imagery and art, with indelible writing, and does so from a diverse range of perspectives. But the book, its authors and editors, are also very intentional about accessibility, modeling the values it promotes with a clear and engaging introduction, through plain language and careful explanations and definitions, and with terrific discussion questions. The result is a book that could be taught in high school, College or University, but also is distinctly non-academic in its appeal. Redefining Disability captures and conveys disability culture and community more successfully, accessibly, and compellingly than any other book you could pick up. - Jay Dolmage, PhD, Professor of English, University of Waterloo and author of Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education and the founding editor of the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies.

Paul D. C. Bones, Ph.D. (2015), University of Oklahoma, is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Texas Woman’s University. He has published articles and book chapters on disability, hate crime, and criminology. This includes a recent article on access and accommodation during COVID-19 published in Socius (2021).Jessica Smartt Gullion, Ph.D. (2002), Texas Woman's University, is the Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor of Sociology at that university. She has published extensively in medical sociology and qualitative research methodology, including the award-winning Diffractive Ethnography: Social Sciences and the Ontological Turn (Routledge, 2018).Danielle Barber, M.S. (2018), Texas Woman's University, is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at that university. She conducts research on health and illness and on disability.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionPaul D. C. Bones, Jessica Smartt Gullion and Danielle Barber1 Existing in a Mortal Form and Other Disabling ExperiencesE. J. K. Brimner and R. McGuire2 Disabled Humans and Our Non-Human Animal CompanionsPaul D. C. BonesPet Profile: CharlieAparna Nair3 Disability Discourse Stuck in a Black/White Binary: Embodying a Black and Disabled Identity as a Mixed-Race PersonCassandra Lovelock4 Plum Tomato: Solanum lycopersicumEllen Samuels5 Disability Aesthetics: A Crip Artistry ManifestoAurora Berger6 Life on the LineAurora Berger7 Finding My Way in a Society Where I Don’t FitJill RichardsonPet Profile: MacValerie and Chase Novack8 Misfit in the Academy: Succeeding as a Visually Impaired Scholar in AustraliaSheelagh Daniels-MayesPet Profile: MudkipAri9 Justice vs. Injustice: Poetic Dialogue about the Meaning of Disability Justice among People Labelled/with Intellectual DisabilityAnonymous, Anonymous, Anonymous, Nicholas Herd, Anonymous, Doreen Kalifer, with support from Erin Kuri and Ann Fudge Schormans10 Inspiration Porn and Desperation Porn: Disrupting the Objectification of Disability in MediaKara B. Ayers and Katherine A. ReedPet Profile: ScribblesMelanie Coughlin11 Tap Tap TapMarie Gagnon12 Adaptation from the Margins: Toward a Crip TheatreChristopher BryantPet Profile: PepperBrian13 Diagnosis LimboDanielle BarberPet Profile: Luther & LaylaDanielle Barber14 Successful SadVanessa EllisonPet Profile: MonkeyEmily Dall’Ora Warfield15 Ddeaf Adjacency: Liminal Conditions of Not HearingMegan Marshall16 S-I-L-I-C-O-N-E Inject-Ear | Silicone Injections: In American Sign Language (ASL) Gloss and EnglishRaymond Luczak17 Utensils and FireJessica Spears Williams18 Seeing Brains: Shakespeare, Autism, and Self-IdentificationNicholas R. HelmsPet Profile: Pike TricklegLauren (aka L.W. Salinas)19 Hot Girl Bummer: Achieving Disabled Sexual Liberation in an Ableist WorldKatherine O’ConnellPet Profile: AbacusKimberly C. Merenda20 Selected PoemsJessi AaronPet Profile: Opal, Orbit, & RubyAubree Evans21 Maybe Do Talk to Strangers on the Internet? An Interview with Corin de Parsons FrietasCorin Parsons de Frietas (with Paul D. C. Bones)Pet Profile: Finn & BearCorin Parsons de Freitas22 Finding Empowerment in the Middle: Navigating Hidden Disabilities in AcademiaSummer M. JacksonPet Profile: Rocko (More Formally Known as Rocko Taco)Summer M. Jackson23 Taking Center Stage in the Face of Shame and ScarsJasmine (Jaz) GrayPet Profile: Aisling & TrutheJennifer Stahl24 Assistive Tech, Assertive TechCole Sorensen25 Modern Day Changelings: On Being an Autistic Parent of an Autistic ChildAlison Kelly26 Stone, Water, Land, SpineElizabeth GlassPet Profile: Maximus Aurelius Gullion, Guardian of the Realm, Slayer of Demons, Friend to Unicorn and Dragon, Defender of Squeaky Toys & Spartacus the MightyJessica Smartt Gullion27 Cancer Isn’t Like a Movie, But If It Was It’d Be a Horror FlickTerri Juneau EklundPet Profile: Bacon & PancakeTerri Juneau Eklund28 “It’s Meant to Be a Hazing Process”: Deciphering Ableism Surrounding Academic AccommodationsCorey ReutlingerPet Profile: Captain Jack Harkness & Pippa Millicent Tiny PantherTara Elliot29 Night of the Living Ableds: Disability, Representation, and Horror FilmPaul D. C. BonesPet Profile: Mildred Sausage, Allan Hamsteak, & Inara BaconPaul D. C. Bones30 A Bright Green: After Lou Ferrigno, A Deaf Bodybuilder Who Played the Incredible Hulk (1977–1982)Raymond Luczak31 ManifestoThe Committee for the Sick and Useless

Praise for Redefining Disability:Redefining Disability offers a unique and vivid combination of lucid explanations and evocative accounts. Featuring essay, narrative, poetry, and photography, this outstanding collection opens a creative window into the richness of disabled experience and calls out systemic ableism that radically diminishes the lives of disabled folks. This provocative, insightful book is essential reading for anyone committed to the work of inclusivity, diversity, equity, and access. - Laura L. Ellingson, PhD, Patrick A. Donohoe, S.J. Professor of Communication, Santa Clara University and author of Embodiment in Qualitative ResearchRedefining Disability brilliantly takes readers on a tour through disabled people's lives. It skillfully talks frankly and directly to readers through a delightful array of short and pithy chapters covering expansive topics such as disability and pets, the COVID-19 pandemic, disclosure in higher ed, and being chronically ill. There are photographs and poems, short essays and longer ones. It’s at times emotionally raw and other times fun. To make this book extra-teachable, each chapter ends with discussion questions. A celebration of the act of telling disabled people’s stories, Redefining Disability is a must-read. - Laura Mauldin, PhD, NIC, Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut and author of Made to Hear: Cochlear Implants and Raising Deaf ChildrenRedefining Disability is a collection 100% shaped by disabled people, not just through the individual chapters and the perspectives contained in the book, but all the way through editing and indexing. The book takes aim at ableism and discrimination against disabled people through critique, with humour, with powerful imagery and art, with indelible writing, and does so from a diverse range of perspectives. But the book, its authors and editors, are also very intentional about accessibility, modeling the values it promotes with a clear and engaging introduction, through plain language and careful explanations and definitions, and with terrific discussion questions. The result is a book that could be taught in high school, College or University, but also is distinctly non-academic in its appeal. Redefining Disability captures and conveys disability culture and community more successfully, accessibly, and compellingly than any other book you could pick up. - Jay Dolmage, PhD, Professor of English, University of Waterloo and author of Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education and the founding editor of the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies.

Paul D. C. Bones, Ph.D. (2015), University of Oklahoma, is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Texas Woman’s University. He has published articles and book chapters on disability, hate crime, and criminology. This includes a recent article on access and accommodation during COVID-19 published in Socius (2021).Jessica Smartt Gullion, Ph.D. (2002), Texas Woman's University, is the Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor of Sociology at that university. She has published extensively in medical sociology and qualitative research methodology, including the award-winning Diffractive Ethnography: Social Sciences and the Ontological Turn (Routledge, 2018).Danielle Barber, M.S. (2018), Texas Woman's University, is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at that university. She conducts research on health and illness and on disability.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionPaul D. C. Bones, Jessica Smartt Gullion and Danielle Barber1 Existing in a Mortal Form and Other Disabling ExperiencesE. J. K. Brimner and R. McGuire2 Disabled Humans and Our Non-Human Animal CompanionsPaul D. C. BonesPet Profile: CharlieAparna Nair3 Disability Discourse Stuck in a Black/White Binary: Embodying a Black and Disabled Identity as a Mixed-Race PersonCassandra Lovelock4 Plum Tomato: Solanum lycopersicumEllen Samuels5 Disability Aesthetics: A Crip Artistry ManifestoAurora Berger6 Life on the LineAurora Berger7 Finding My Way in a Society Where I Don’t FitJill RichardsonPet Profile: MacValerie and Chase Novack8 Misfit in the Academy: Succeeding as a Visually Impaired Scholar in AustraliaSheelagh Daniels-MayesPet Profile: MudkipAri9 Justice vs. Injustice: Poetic Dialogue about the Meaning of Disability Justice among People Labelled/with Intellectual DisabilityAnonymous, Anonymous, Anonymous, Nicholas Herd, Anonymous, Doreen Kalifer, with support from Erin Kuri and Ann Fudge Schormans10 Inspiration Porn and Desperation Porn: Disrupting the Objectification of Disability in MediaKara B. Ayers and Katherine A. ReedPet Profile: ScribblesMelanie Coughlin11 Tap Tap TapMarie Gagnon12 Adaptation from the Margins: Toward a Crip TheatreChristopher BryantPet Profile: PepperBrian13 Diagnosis LimboDanielle BarberPet Profile: Luther & LaylaDanielle Barber14 Successful SadVanessa EllisonPet Profile: MonkeyEmily Dall’Ora Warfield15 Ddeaf Adjacency: Liminal Conditions of Not HearingMegan Marshall16 S-I-L-I-C-O-N-E Inject-Ear | Silicone Injections: In American Sign Language (ASL) Gloss and EnglishRaymond Luczak17 Utensils and FireJessica Spears Williams18 Seeing Brains: Shakespeare, Autism, and Self-IdentificationNicholas R. HelmsPet Profile: Pike TricklegLauren (aka L.W. Salinas)19 Hot Girl Bummer: Achieving Disabled Sexual Liberation in an Ableist WorldKatherine O’ConnellPet Profile: AbacusKimberly C. Merenda20 Selected PoemsJessi AaronPet Profile: Opal, Orbit, & RubyAubree Evans21 Maybe Do Talk to Strangers on the Internet? An Interview with Corin de Parsons FrietasCorin Parsons de Frietas (with Paul D. C. Bones)Pet Profile: Finn & BearCorin Parsons de Freitas22 Finding Empowerment in the Middle: Navigating Hidden Disabilities in AcademiaSummer M. JacksonPet Profile: Rocko (More Formally Known as Rocko Taco)Summer M. Jackson23 Taking Center Stage in the Face of Shame and ScarsJasmine (Jaz) GrayPet Profile: Aisling & TrutheJennifer Stahl24 Assistive Tech, Assertive TechCole Sorensen25 Modern Day Changelings: On Being an Autistic Parent of an Autistic ChildAlison Kelly26 Stone, Water, Land, SpineElizabeth GlassPet Profile: Maximus Aurelius Gullion, Guardian of the Realm, Slayer of Demons, Friend to Unicorn and Dragon, Defender of Squeaky Toys & Spartacus the MightyJessica Smartt Gullion27 Cancer Isn’t Like a Movie, But If It Was It’d Be a Horror FlickTerri Juneau EklundPet Profile: Bacon & PancakeTerri Juneau Eklund28 “It’s Meant to Be a Hazing Process”: Deciphering Ableism Surrounding Academic AccommodationsCorey ReutlingerPet Profile: Captain Jack Harkness & Pippa Millicent Tiny PantherTara Elliot29 Night of the Living Ableds: Disability, Representation, and Horror FilmPaul D. C. BonesPet Profile: Mildred Sausage, Allan Hamsteak, & Inara BaconPaul D. C. Bones30 A Bright Green: After Lou Ferrigno, A Deaf Bodybuilder Who Played the Incredible Hulk (1977–1982)Raymond Luczak31 ManifestoThe Committee for the Sick and Useless

Praise for Redefining Disability:Redefining Disability offers a unique and vivid combination of lucid explanations and evocative accounts. Featuring essay, narrative, poetry, and photography, this outstanding collection opens a creative window into the richness of disabled experience and calls out systemic ableism that radically diminishes the lives of disabled folks. This provocative, insightful book is essential reading for anyone committed to the work of inclusivity, diversity, equity, and access. - Laura L. Ellingson, PhD, Patrick A. Donohoe, S.J. Professor of Communication, Santa Clara University and author of Embodiment in Qualitative ResearchRedefining Disability brilliantly takes readers on a tour through disabled people's lives. It skillfully talks frankly and directly to readers through a delightful array of short and pithy chapters covering expansive topics such as disability and pets, the COVID-19 pandemic, disclosure in higher ed, and being chronically ill. There are photographs and poems, short essays and longer ones. It’s at times emotionally raw and other times fun. To make this book extra-teachable, each chapter ends with discussion questions. A celebration of the act of telling disabled people’s stories, Redefining Disability is a must-read. - Laura Mauldin, PhD, NIC, Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut and author of Made to Hear: Cochlear Implants and Raising Deaf ChildrenRedefining Disability is a collection 100% shaped by disabled people, not just through the individual chapters and the perspectives contained in the book, but all the way through editing and indexing. The book takes aim at ableism and discrimination against disabled people through critique, with humour, with powerful imagery and art, with indelible writing, and does so from a diverse range of perspectives. But the book, its authors and editors, are also very intentional about accessibility, modeling the values it promotes with a clear and engaging introduction, through plain language and careful explanations and definitions, and with terrific discussion questions. The result is a book that could be taught in high school, College or University, but also is distinctly non-academic in its appeal. Redefining Disability captures and conveys disability culture and community more successfully, accessibly, and compellingly than any other book you could pick up. - Jay Dolmage, PhD, Professor of English, University of Waterloo and author of Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education and the founding editor of the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies.