4/12/23 | More Than Accessibility by Makena Metz

Makena Metz has generously shared an essay titled More Than Accessibility for circulation to visitors and readers of the Anti-Ableist Composition web presence. Click the file link below to access the full essay. A text-only version will be made available on this webpage soon. More Than Accessibility: The Effect of Student Writing in a Disability-Forward…

Call for Collaborators • March 2021

The Anti-Ableist Composition Collective is seeking collaborators who will help expand our Collective's presence and solidify a collaborative, interdependent ethic of care. The Collective is especially interested in disabled and neurodivergent writers who can help in one of the following areas: Blog Editor: Responsible for reading and providing small amounts of feedback to writers who…

2/22/2021: “Trauma Sex: A Queercrip Erotic” by Johnathan Smilges

Today's #AntiAbleistComposition feature is "Trauma Sex: A Queercrip Erotic" by Johnathan Smilges. The essay is published in Disability Studies Quarterly and is available as an open-access essay in the 40:3 issue. Trauma Sex: A Queercrip EroticDownload

2/19/2021: “‘What it means to be human!’ A Conversation with Cornel West”

Today's #AntiAbleistComposition feature is "'What it means to be human!' A Conversation with Cornel West" curated by Eduardo Mendieta and published in Critical Philosophy of Race in 2017. A Conversation with Cornel WestDownload

2/17/2021: Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability by Aimi Hamraie

Today's #AntiAbleistComposition feature is Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability by Aimi Hamraie. Building Access was published by University of Minnesota Press in 2017. An excerpt of the text is included below. Building AccessDownload

Thursday February 18, 2021: Nirmala Erevelles at University of Washington 3pm Pacific Time

Neil Simpkins provided the following information via the Disability Studies and Rhetoric and Composition listserv. "The Disability Studies program at the University of Washington is hosting Nirmala Erevelles this week on Thursday at 3pm Pacific Time, and I thought I would share the info about the talk." Description "Scenes of Subjection": Carceral Logics and Disability…

2/10/2021: “Protecting Pandemic Conversations: Tracing Twitter’s Evolving Content Policies During COVID-19” by Lacy Hope

Today's #AntiAbleistComposition feature is "Protecting Pandemic Conversations: Tracing Twitter's Evolving Content Policies During COVID-19" by Lacy Hope. The essay is published in the 35:1 issue of the Journal of Business and Technical Communication. Protecting Pandemic ConversationsDownload essay

2/9/2021: “‘It’s Like Writing Yourself into a Codependent Relationship with Someone Who Doesn’t Even Want You!’ Emotional Labor, Intimacy, and the Academic Job Market in Rhetoric and Composition” by Jennifer Sano-Franchini

Today's #AntiAbleistComposition feature is "'It's Like Writing Yourself into a Codependent Relationship with Someone Who Doesn't Even Want You!' Emotional Labor, Intimacy, and the Academic Job Market in Rhetoric and Composition" by Jennifer Sano-Franchini. The essay is published in the 68:1 issue of College Composition and Communication. EssayDownload

1/18/2021: “Introduction: Future Texts” by Alondra Nelson

Today's #AntiAbleistComposition feature is "Introduction: Future Texts" by Alondra Nelson. The essay is the introductory article for the 20:2 issue of Social Text. Future TextsDownload

Call for Submissions: COVID-19 and the Question of a Future for Disability and Composition

How can we possibly write right now? How do we write when the world is spinning, when our bodyminds [1] are constantly responding to the material, social, emotional, and psychical pressures of grief, mourning, death, sickness, disabling infrastructures, state-sanctioned violence, and university-sanctioned negligence? Is there a future for disability and composition? This is the framing…