Papers by Alyson Patsavas
Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies
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This second installment of "Crip Pandemic Life: A Tapestry" opens with a reflection on ... more This second installment of "Crip Pandemic Life: A Tapestry" opens with a reflection on transformative access and its visioning work. We weave this discussion through not only the eight new pieces found within this issue, but also through a reflection on the practices of access and care that enabled the writing, editing, and publication process itself. We conclude with two artifacts: The first is the "Accessible Knowledge Production Manifesto" that emerged as a collectively authored set of demands generated at a workshop we held in connection to the launch of our first installment of "Crip Pandemic Life." The second is a link to a resource list, "Continuing Threads and Proliferations; Crip Pandemic Life Archive," compiled by Corbin Outlaw, which links out to other pandemic projects documenting crip, disabled, chronically-ill, mad, and neurodivergent experiences, particularly highlighting experiences not captured within our tapestry of crip pand...
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'Crip Pandemic Conversation: Textures, Tools, and Recipes,' brings together experts whose... more 'Crip Pandemic Conversation: Textures, Tools, and Recipes,' brings together experts whose scholarship, curation, organizing and artistic work centers crip insights and creativity to reflect on the work that 'Crip Pandemic Life: A Tapestry' undertakes. Margaret Fink, Aimi Hamraie, Mimi Khúc, and Sandie Yi each discuss how the pandemic impacted their work, and they join section co-editors Alyson Patsavas and Theodora Danylevich in discussing the tapestry's content. Their conversation pulls out some of the most salient threads of the work: smallness, grief, care, community-building, tenderness, and pandemic coping tools. 'Crip Pandemic Conversation: Textures, Tools, and Recipes' includes an unedited video recording of a Zoom roundtable session, a lightly edited text version of the conversation, and a glossary of terms that appear in the discussion, as a contextualizing access tool located at the bottom of the document. In choosing a preferred way of engaging with the content, we invite readers to consider, as the roundtable participants themselves do, how access (transcripts, zoom recordings, and captions) produces its own caring archive and knowledge-making practices.
This Health Humanities Portrait- The Medicalization of Trans Lives-- uses the critical analytic a... more This Health Humanities Portrait- The Medicalization of Trans Lives-- uses the critical analytic approach of Disability Studies to explore medicalization as a social issue that impacts trans identity. The portrait helps learners understand how the concepts often marshaled in discussions of trans health--such as diagnosis, cure, and treatment-- can actually lead to disparities in trans health and healthcare.<br>
Disability Studies Quarterly, 2017
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Czech Sociological Review, 2019
In the summer of 2016, black, disabled, and gay 14yearold Jerika Bolen announced her decision to ... more In the summer of 2016, black, disabled, and gay 14yearold Jerika Bolen announced her decision to die. The public conversation surrounding Bolen's decision, launched through a series of newspaper articles announcing a 'last dance' prom, offers a casestudy through which to explore how pain frustrates an analysis of the biopolitical formations that shape both rightto die discussions and decisions. In doing so, this article offers two interven tions. It reveals how dominant views of pain and disability shape and limit how we make sense of Jerika's life and death. It also highlights the analytical leverage that this critical approach offers by reading Bolen's death as a form of what critical theorist Lauren Berlant calls 'slow death' or the gradual wearing out of populations. In this way, I extend conversations within critical theory that seek to trace the slower and more sustained impacts of structural oppres sion. In looking at the convergence of the biopolitics and necropolitics of dis ability, race, class, gender, and sexuality, I suggest Bolen's death and the 'last dance' that launched an international public conversation about it function as a celebration of slow death facilitated, in part, by dominant views of pain and disability.
The increasing recognition of critical disability studies as a generative body of work across dis... more The increasing recognition of critical disability studies as a generative body of work across disciplines is inseparable from a collective need to make sense of ongoing moments of socio-political crisis, emergency, and exceptionality. Theorizations of crip time emergent from lived experiences of disability are critical to the ongoing work of understanding and surviving a chronically debilitating socio-political context. Our current political moment seems to protract states of crisis to such a degree that the very notions of emergency and crisis shift under the weight of their simultaneous seeming banality and urgent ubiquity. “Cripistemologies of Crisis: Emergent Knowledges for the Present” contends that epistemologies of chronicity, illness, and trauma offer indispensable lenses through which to rethink—and care for—our collective present. The essays within “Cripistemologies of Crisis” reframe our understandings of both social and personal crisis, and to explore how crisis and emergency shape the experiences and knowledges of our bodyminds in time and space. In doing so, the authors collectively offer an epistemological toolkit to theorize and survive everyday states of trauma, madness, and illness as the lived impacts of such quotidian and ongoing violence. “Cripistemologies of Crisis” asks, then, what crip futures can be conjured through a centering of experiential, collective, and speculative ways of knowing with/in/through crisis.
Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, 2014
The article weaves together personal experiences of pain with critical readings of cultural disco... more The article weaves together personal experiences of pain with critical readings of cultural discourses to make several key interventions into knowledge produced about/through pain. It brings together analytical processes of cripping and queering to trace the discursive systems that materially produce and structure experiences of pain, lay out a corporeally infused cultural analysis of pain, excavate the felt experiences of cultural discourses, and situate those experiences within a broader cultural politics of ableism, or what Tobin Siebers calls an ideology of ability.
Short opening remarks for an event featuring Kenny Fries and Kateřina Kolářová at the Schwules Mu... more Short opening remarks for an event featuring Kenny Fries and Kateřina Kolářová at the Schwules Museum in Berlin. The event marked the opening of the museum's exhibit--Homosexualities--and the Disability/Mad Pride Parade. These comments introduce the speakers. Through a discussion of both Fries and Kolářová's work, I briefly sketch out an understanding of disability and queer art and culture.
Different Bodies: Essays on Disability in Film and Television, Ed. Marja Mogk
Journal by Alyson Patsavas
by Professor David Bolt, Liz Crow, Hannah Thompson, John Duffy, Heather Tilley, Julie C Van Dam, Christian Flaugh, Denise Nepveux, Nirmala Erevelles, David Feeney, Margaret Fink, Alyson Patsavas, David Serlin, Simone Chess, Julia Miele Rodas, Dr Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson, Ato Quayson, James Overboe, Susannah B Mintz, Anne Finger, Tanya Titchkosky, Susan Schweik, Martha Stoddard Holmes, Merri Lisa Johnson, Robert McRuer, Sharon Snyder, Lucy Burke, Clare Barker, G. Thomas Couser, and Elizabeth J. Donaldson The Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies (JLCDS) focuses on cultural and especially ... more The Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies (JLCDS) focuses on cultural and especially literary representations of disability. Containing a wide variety of textual analyses that are informed by disability theory and, by extension, experiences of disability, it is essential reading for scholars whose work concentrates on the portrayal of disability in literature. More broadly, it is instrumental in the interdisciplinarity of literary studies, cultural studies, and disability studies.
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