Unexceptional Violence in Exceptional Times: Disablist and Ableist Violence During the COVID-19 Pandemic

It is well established that violence and oppression towards vulnerable marginalised communities are intensified compounded during times of social upheaval, the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated disablist ableist against disabled people. During first year pandemic, we have been confronted with instances meted out to subjects. In this article, provide a theorisation such violence. Based on an assemblage our collective readings Butler, Campbell Young, as own observations experiences, suggest added anxieties currently confronting people’s fragile corporeal embodiment licensing abled subjects violate put them back in their place. Through excavation ‘Norms, Binaries, Anxieties’, ‘Abjection, Substitutability, Disavowal’, ‘Ableism (Un)grievability’, trace contours violence, both within beyond context way imagining otherwise resist