Tournament: 2 - Heart of Texas | Round: 5 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll EP | Judge: Collin Smith
Disability is fundamentally structured by sexiness. the axiom which undergirds contemporary understandings of the disabled subject is our refusal to acknowledge the disability drive, an anxious compulsion that renders disabled folk nothing more than 'pity-producing spectacles', meant only to be observed.
Mollow, 15 ~Anna Mollow, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D. in English, Tufts University; B.A. in English and French, Minor in Women's Studies, has written countless books in disability studies, Spring 2015, Berkeley, "The Disability Drive," pg. 1-3, accessed 3-6-2021~JMK
Chapter 1: The Sexual Model of Disability
What makes disability so sexy? If this question seems counterintuitive—-if, indeed, the notion that disability is sexy appears so bizarre as to border on "crazy"—-then consider this saying: "Crazy in the head, crazy in bed." It's a silly saw, but it makes one thing clear: dominant cultural conceptions of sexuality are inseparable from disability.1 Linguistic convention figures disability and sex as close companions: we speak of being blinded by love, or of going mad with desire; we say that we suffer from lovesickness and succumb to fits of passion. Lust is reputed to render us dizzy and weak in the knees; and in the throes of desire, one claims to tremble, stammer, and forget one's words.2 Sexual attraction supposedly feels like a fever; and sex, experts warn, can become an "addiction."3
Officially, conventional culture insists that disability is not sexy; it depicts disabled people
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displaced onto disabled people, who are treated as embodiments of the drive.
Utilitarian calculation assumes a conception of "lives worth living"—-it depends on the liberal notion of the "able body" to determine value which necessitates the violent exclusion of those who fall outside the category of those deemed 'productive' and facilitates the genocide of those who don't exemplify able
Colebrook et al. 18 ~Claire, published as a collection of works, other authors had no part in writing this essay, it's Claire Colebrook, you know who she is, "After Extinction" – chapter 7: LIVES WORTH LIVING, zc~Recut JMK
Utilitarianism is a motif that will necessarily haunt questions of extinction and capacity: as
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worth living, the capable life, intertwined essentially with dependence and incapacity?
They circulate the image of the fantasmatic Child – the plan is complicit in a politics of rehabilitative futurism that systematically eradicates disability via the eugenic and violent imperative to rehabilitate a "crippled" society.
Mollow, 15 ~Anna Mollow, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D. in English, Tufts University; B.A. in English and French, Minor in Women's Studies, has written countless books in disability studies, Spring 2015, Berkeley, "The Disability Drive," pg. 68-69, accessed 3-6-2021~JMK
Take Tiny Tim
Let us begin our reexamination of Tiny Tim with a discussion
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the disabled, eugenicists promised, would bring forth a better future.110
Mollow, 15 ~Anna Mollow, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D. in English, Tufts University; B.A. in English and French, Minor in Women's Studies, has written countless books in disability studies, Spring 2015, Berkeley, "The Disability Drive," pg. 126, accessed 3-6-2021~JMK
If the drive won't stop doing us, is it possible that we can allow
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has its keys in hand. We are not done with the drive.
Mitchell, et. al, 16 ~David Mitchell, Sharon Snyder, and Linda Ware—all of their credentials are in German so I can't read them, 2016, Das Geschlecht der Inklusion, "Curricular Cripistemologies: The Crip/Queer Art of Failure," https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/j.ctvm201kv.5.pdf?ab_segments=0252Fbasic_search_gsv2252Ftestandrefreqid=excelsior3A9788d2c46ec4cbff30928c80efeade1a, accessed 3-7-2021~JMK
The author of The Odyssey, Homer, is also blind and a singer of
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by the cultural products crafted of blind poets and semi-mobile gods.