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Body Politics w/ Jasbir Puar (Unlocked)

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Disability as a Political Identity or as a Descriptive Modality?

I think there's also been an academic discourse, but I also think in organizing spaces, this kind of distinction between disability as a political identity versus disability as a descriptive modality. And so I really saw that some of these efforts to kind of complicate this binary were actually then being undermined or bolstered again by some of these other kind of backdoor, you know, analyses and contributions. It does feel like a reanimation of something that is being critiqued often. The US Empire is a massively productive force in terms of making new disabled people through its ongoing sort of imperialist engagement with the rest of the world.

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