Decolonizing Disability Through Activist Art
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چکیده
This paper mobilizes activist art at the intersections of disability, non-normativity, and Indigeneity to think through ways decolonizing indigenizing understandings disability. We present analyze artwork produced by Vanessa Dion Fletcher, first Indigenous disability-identified Artist-in-Residence for Bodies in Translation (BIT), a research project that uses decolonized, cripped lens cultivate disabled, D/deaf, fat, Mad, aging arts on lands currently known as Canada. begin setting context, outlining why disentangling knot is necessary urgent disability studies activisms. Drawing ontologies relationality, we methodological guide our reading Fletcher's work. take this approach from her installation piece Relationship or Transaction?, which, argue, foregrounds need white settlers turn critical gaze transactional concepts relationship integral decolonized an indigenized analysis non-normative arts. then centre three original pieces created Fletcher surface some intricacies Indigeneity/disability/non-normativity nexus complicate recent discussions about recuperating bodymind differences across supremist settler colonial regimes Turtle Island (North America) seek debilitate bodies lives. intervene these debates with reflections what might be created—and learn—when categories (Western conceptions of) non-normativity are understood contiguous, particularly focusing meaning-making within developing oeuvre.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Disability Studies Quarterly
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1041-5718', '2159-8371']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v41i2.7130