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Installation artist. Perfume fanatic. Chronically ill. Concordia University PhD student(disability studies + performance studies + practice-based research.) Ex jammer, current failure. She/her Montréaler in Edmonton. linktr.ee/ChloeLum

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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
My buddy got a new toy today and is pretty glad. #caturday
An orange tabby with green eyes is sitting on a cat tree and in his paws, he is holding a small knit black and white toy cat. He is licking the toy and looking intense. 
 Tropical plants are in the background.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I just had to share the majesty of my cat Hammerstein.
An orange tabby cat, layling along the top of a jungle-print rattan couch and surrounded by houseplants.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
With alt text:
also provided data to Mashable pertaining to Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. In terms of fake traffic, no other platform came close to X's nearly 76 percent.
Out of more than 40 million visits from TikTok, only 2.56 percent were determined to be fake. Facebook sent 8.1 million visits and 2.01 percent of the monitored visits were classified as inauthentic. And over on Instagram, only 0.73 percent of the 68,700 visits from the platform were fake.
Tytunovich tells Mashable that it's not out of the ordinary to see spikes in fake traffic on social media platforms during big events like U.S. elections. However, he has never seen anything close to X's 75.85 percent.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Hammerstein, my wonderful but notoriously uncuddly cat, chose to sit on my legs for a whole 12 minutes. Fuck sleep, I want to celebrate this.
An orange cat with a serious expression on his face sits on a bed in a dark room. He is surrounded by shadows.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
My partner got a pic of me petting Oreo through the fence:
A hand with a tattooed wrist beckons through a wire enclosure to a baby goat. The goat is white with black marking and tiny black horns.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
There is no barcode inside the book, only on the back cover. Here’s the copyright page:
Sixth edition published 2021 by Routledge
52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017
and by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2021 selection and editorial matter, Lennard J. Davis, Rebecca Sanchez and Alexander Luft; individual chapters, the contributors
The right of Lennard J. Davis, Rebecca Sanchez and Alexander Luft to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.
Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.
First edition published by Routledge 1997
Fifth edition published by Routledge 2017
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Davis, Lennard J., 1949- editor. | Sanchez, Rebecca, editor.
Title: The disability studies reader / edited by Lennard J. Davis and Rebecca Sanchez.
Description: 6th edition. | New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020044231 (print) | LCCN 2020044232 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780367536107 (hardback) | ISBN 9780367536077 (paperback) |
ISBN 9781003082583 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: People with disabilities. | Sociology of disability. | Disability studies.
Classification: LCC HV1568 .D5696 2021 (print) | LCC HV1568 (ebook) | DDC
362.4-—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020044231
LC ebook record available at https://1ccn.loc.gov/2020044232
ISBN: 978-0-367-53610-7…
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
The only barcode is on the back cover. Here is the copyright page:
Sixth edition published 2021 by Routledge
52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017
and by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2021 selection and editorial matter, Lennard J. Davis, Rebecca Sanchez and Alexander Luft; individual chapters, the contributors
The right of Lennard J. Davis, Rebecca Sanchez and Alexander Luft to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.
Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.
First edition published by Routledge 1997
Fifth edition published by Routledge 2017
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Davis, Lennard J., 1949- editor. | Sanchez, Rebecca, editor.
Title: The disability studies reader / edited by Lennard J. Davis and Rebecca Sanchez.
Description: 6th edition. | New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020044231 (print) | LCCN 2020044232 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780367536107 (hardback) | ISBN 9780367536077 (paperback) |
ISBN 9781003082583 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: People with disabilities. | Sociology of disability. | Disability studies.
Classification: LCC HV1568 .D5696 2021 (print) | LCC HV1568 (ebook) | DDC
362.4-—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020044231
LC ebook record available at https://1ccn.loc.gov/2020044232
ISBN: 978-0-367-53610-7…
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Here’s a copy of my invoice with the vendor info. Feel free to reach out if you need more photos.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Sold by Basi6 International LLC out of Texas. Wtf‽
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Basi6 International LLC
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1018 Camino Lago
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
x Contents
31 Who Is Human?
JULIE AVRIL MINICH
32 "The Magic Wand"
LYNN MANNING
PART VII
Disability and Social Policy
33 Legal Ableism, Interrupted
LYDIA X.Z. BROWN
34 Intersecting Disability, Imprisonment, and Deinstitutionalization
LIAT BEN-MOSHE
35 Reimagining Disability and Inclusive Education
JAN DOOLITTLE WILSON
36 Disability as Exception: China, Race, and Human Rights
HENTYLE YAPP
PART VIII
Sixth Edition Featured Section: Neurodivergence
37 Understanding Empathy Through a Study of Autistic
Life Writing
ANNA STENNING
38 Involution
M. REMI YER GEAU
39 A Mad Fight: Psychiatry and Disability Activism
BRADLEY LEWIS
40 Defining Mental Disability
MARGARET PRICE
41 #BlackAutisticJoy in ADA 30
TIMOTHEUS "T.J]." GORDON JR.
42 Yale Will Not Save You
ESMÉ WEIJUN WANG
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
PART IV
Theorizing Disability

19 Disability Bioethics: From Theory to Practice
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ROSEMARIE GARLAND-THOMSON
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20 At the Same Time, Out of Time: Ashley X
261
ALISON KAFER

21 Mental Health in Kenya: Not Yet Uhuru
270
MOHAMED IBRAHIM

22 Unspeakable Conversations
292
HARRIET MCBRYDE JOHNSON
298

PART V
Identities and Intersectionalities
311

23 Unspeakable Offenses: Untangling Race and Disability in
Discourses of Intersectionality
313
NIRMALA EREVELLES AND ANDREA MINEAR

24 A Hybridized Academic Identity: Negotiating a Disability Within
Academia's Discourse of Ableism
328
SHAHD ALSHAMMARI

25 Vegans, Freaks, and Animals: Toward a New Table Fellowship
337
SUNAURA TAYLOR

26 Contextualizing Black Disability and the Culture of Dissemblance
343
SAMI SCHALK

27 Promise of Cure
347
ELI CLARE

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28 Doing Disability With Others
REBECCA SANCHEZ

PART VI
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Disability and Culture

29 Blindness and Visual Culture: An Eyewitness Account
367
GEORGINA KLEEGE

376
30 Making Black Madness
THERÍ PICKENS
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
viii Contents
9 Disability, Democracy, and the New Genetics
MICHAEL BÉRUBÉ
10 My Body, My Closet: Invisible Disability and the Limits of Coming Out
ELLEN SAMUELS
PART II
Historical Perspectives
11 Disabled Upon Arrival: The Rhetorical Construction of Disability and Race at Ellis Island
JAY DOLMAGE
12 First Victims at Last: Disability and Memorial Culture in
Holocaust Studies
TAMARA ZWICK
Moctezuma's Zoo: Housing Disability in Transatlantic Travel
Literature and European Courts
ELIZABETH B. BEARDEN
14 Losing Limbs in the Republic: Disability, Dismemberment, and Mutilation in Charles Chesnutt's The Conjure Stories
DENNIS TYLER JR.
PART III
The Politics of Disability
15 Refugee Camps, Asylum Detention, and the Geopolitics of Transnational Migration: Disability and Its Intersections With Humanitarian Confinement
MANSHA MIRZA
16 Folded Time and the Presence of Disability
EUNJUNG KIM
17 Critical Access Studies
AIMI HAMRAIE
18 Whose Disability (Studies)?: Defetishizing Disablement of the
Iranian Survivors of the Iran-Iraq War
SONA KAZEMI
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Contents
List of Contributors
Preface Credits
PART I
Early Developments Toward a Critical Framework
1 Disability, Normality, and Power
LENNARD J. DAVIS
2 The Social Model of Disability
TOM SHAKESPEARE
3 "Heaven's Special Child": The Making of Poster Children
PAUL K. LONGMORE
4 Disability and the Theory of Complex Embodiment: For Identity Politics in a New Register
TOBIN SIEBERS
5 Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Existence
ROBERT MCRUER
6 Deaf Studies in the Twenty-First Century: "Deaf-Gain" and the Future of Human Diversity
H-DIRKSEN L. BAUMAN AND JOSEPH J. MURRAY
7 Narrative Prosthesis
DAVID MITCHELL AND SHARON SNYDER
8 Unhealthy Disabled: Treating Chronic Illnesses as Disabilities
SUSAN WENDELL
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
The Disability Studies Reader
Disability studies has gone from being a relatively unknown field to one of increasing importance in the social sciences. The sixth edition of The Disability Studies Reader brings in new topics, scholars, writers, artists, and essays to address links between ableism and imperialism; disability bioethics; and the relationship between disability agency, social policy, and decarceration.
There are as many meanings and experiences of disability as there are disabled people, and this diversity ensures that the work of the field will continue to evolve. Fully revised and brought up to date, this volume addresses a wider range of geographical and cultural contexts, and many pay specific attention to the intersections between disability and race, gender, and sexuality. The growing interest and activism around the issue of neurotypicality is also reflected in a new section on neurodivergence.
The Disability Studies Reader remains an excellent touchstone for students in disability studies courses across the disciplines, including the social sciences, English literature, and psychology.
Lennard J. Davis is Professor of English, Disability and Human Development, and Medical Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the sole editor of the Routledge Series Integrating Science and Culture.
Rebecca Sanchez is Associate Professor of English at Fordham University, where she teaches disability studies, transatlantic modernism, and poetics.
Alexander Luft is a visiting lecturer at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He served as a contributing editor to Beginning With Disability: A Primer.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Here’s a photo of my copy:
Cover of the book The Disability Studies Reader 6th edition. The book has a white background with red and grey text reading : EDITED BY
LENNARD J. DAVIS
CONSULTING EDITOR
REBECCA SANCHEZ
MANAGING EDITOR
ALEXANDER LUFT

THE DISABILITY
STUDIES READER
Sixth Edition
ROUTLEDGE

in grey and red sans-serif text. There is s scribbly illustration of three colourful and tall stacks of books.

The book cover is being held shut with a single finger that has robin’s egg blue nail polish with black and white speckles.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
It’s definitely been published, I bought a copy two months ago unaware of any of this:
Cover if the book The Disability Studies Reader 6th edition. The book has a white background with red and grey text reding : EDITED BY
LENNARD J. DAVIS
CONSULTING EDITOR
REBECCA SANCHEZ
MANAGING EDITOR
ALEXANDER LUFT

THE DISABILITY
STUDIES READER
Sixth Edition
ROUTLEDGE

in grey and red sans-serif text. There is s scribbly illustration of three colourful and tall stacks of books.

The book cover is being held shut with a single finger that has robin’s egg blue nail polish with black and white speckles.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
My cat Hammy is so cute that it drives me bananas. He’s head butting me right now.
Photo of an orange tabby cat showing his belly with his paws extended. He has green eyes, a pink nose and is looking at the camera.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
My CCMC records.
A copy of the CCMC record Volume Three sits on top of a record player. The cover has dark orange text on s bright orage background.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
People: So, how do you like living in Edmonton? Me: It’s the last weekend of March and-
A very snowy window view of a front yard shows hedges, a bird feeder and birdbath covered in 6 inches of snow.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
It’s so cute when he crawls under the blankets. Having a cat is the greatest.
Orange tabby cat who is on a grey wool blanket with his head and paws emerging out from under a second grey wool blanket. He is looking down.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
By famous, I mean getting consistent institutional support, Canadian museums arent exactly tripping over themselves to show or aquire video and performance art. Say hi to Hammy!
An orange tabby cat sprawled out on a hardwood floor.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
I dont think it photographs well but this was my depression project during my MFA. No idea how many charms are on here. 150?
Heavy sterling silver chain necklace densely covered in dozens of vintage silver charms. The charms are mostly novelties.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
At least 50 times a day, I ask my cat Hammy if he knows he’s just a little cat, just a little lad, just a little guy and I’m still not sure if he knows.
Close-up of an orange tabby cat’s face and neck. He is staring at the camera and looks serious.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Just look at this thing!
Screenshot of a Facebook marketplace listing for a University of Alberta butter dish. It is bright yellow ceramic with University of Alberta printed on it in a bright green serif type, all uppercase. It’s listed for 25$.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Hammy agrees that the bedroom is cold.
The tip of an orange tabby cat’s poking out from under a heavy-duty grey wool military blanket over a beige stripped bedspread.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
This is me in my old apartment, I’m using the same yellow for a bedroom wall for the third time.
40-something woman with dyed yellow hair against a wall of the same colour. She is wearing bright pink lipstick and pastel pink glasses.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Good evening BlueSky, I’d like to introduce you to my best pal Hammerstein aka Hammy aka The Wee Little Ham Man aka Little Lad.
An orange tabby cat sits on a table, behind a modem and next to a lamp. He has green eyes.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 28/09/2024
As a massive music nerd I can’t not post this, but no one wants to get to know my random taste.
GET TO KNOW MY MUSIC TASTE
for every like,
i will post one song i love ❤️
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
I finally got it to work!
A graphic that says celebrating 10 million users with the number 673,689 and an image of a seal that says first 10%. Below it says Chloë Lum with my user name and joined August 21, 2023.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 22/08/2024
My cat is also named Hammy! Short for Hammerstein, after Oscar.
Curious looking orange tabby cat laying down on a dark grey wool blanket. He has a pink nose and extended front legs. He is looking at the camera.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 09/08/2024
My international cat, Hammerstein aka Hammy aka Ham Man aka Little Lad.
Orange tabby cat with green eyes and  a pink nose and outstretched front legs on a grey wool blanket. He is looking at the camera with an alert expression.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 12/04/2024
Two months ago, I made a GoFundMe after my cat swallowed ribbons and had to have an extremely expensive emergency surgery. Total strangers on here shared my link and donated. They will probably not see this but my guy made a full recovery I’m so grateful for the support and kind words. Merci!
Photo of silly looking orange tabby cat looking upwards.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
I’m trying to raise some funds to cover my cat’s emergency surgery after he ate ribbons, resulting in an intestinal blockage. He’s my best pal and is very naughty. Be he is, helping me with my coursework. gofund.me/4d1b240e
Orange tabby cat laying a top of a Mary Oliver book and a bunch of printouts on a tropical-print bedspread.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 07/02/2024
My Hammy is staying overnight at the vet’s for fluids and observation. They think he ate a piece a string. I find out in the morning if he will need surgery, and I’m losing it with worry.
Close up photo of an orange cat’s face. He has a pink nose , green eyes, and is on a fluffy beige blanket. He looks serious.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 29/01/2024
This is Hammerstein. He is so smart that he learned how to reprogram his automated feeder by jamming his paws on the buttons, getting himself an extra serving. We covered the buttons with plastic board & layers of duct tape, he removed it within 3 days. He is also terrified of the washing machine.
Playful looking orange tabby lays on his back on white bedding. He has a pink nose and from legs extended.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 02/09/2023
Say hello to Hammerstein.
Orange tabby cat looks out suspiciously from a pink tropical print quilt.
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Chloë Lum @compulsiveobserver.bsky.social · 28/08/2023
🎶🎵Broadway baaaaby, learning how to sing and dance, waiting for that one big chance, to be in a showwww🎶 (Video still from new work.)
Weirdo wearing white grease paint under giant lumpy round mask covered in gold leaf and black sweater on a red background.
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