Disabled Futures (Paperback)

Paperback. Disabled Futures makes an important intervention in disability studies by taking an intersectional approach to race, gender, and disability. Milo Obourn reads disability studies, gender and sexuality studies, and critical race studies to develop a framework for addressing inequity. They theorize the concept of racialized disgender-to describe the ways in which racialization and gendering are social processes with disabling effects-thereby offering a new avenue for understanding race, gender, and disability as mutually constitutive. Obourn uses readings of literature and popular culture from Lost and Avatar to Octavia Butlers Xenogenesis trilogy to explore and unpack specific ways that race and gender construct-and are constructed by-historical notions of ability and disability, sickness and health, and successful recovery versus damaged lives. What emerges is not only a more complex and deeper understanding of the intersections between ableism, racism, and (cis)sexism, but also possibilities for imagining alternate and more radically inclusive futures in which all of our identities, experiences, freedoms, and oppressions are understood as interdependent and intertwined. "This project reads disability alongside race, gender, and sexuality in order to problematize the roots of the field of disability studies in the experience and writings of white, straight, cis-gendered men. Obourn coins the term "racialized disgender," a resistant way of reading dominant representations of disability"-- Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…