W9: Asexuality, deviance, violence in disabled/queer/kid space

Week 9: Asexuality, deviance, violence in disabled/queer/kid space
This week we were lucky enough to be joined via Skype by the incredible Cyree Jarelle Johnson, a New York writer and community worker to explore the connections between child sexual assault, disability justice and disabled experiences, and queerness. Check out Cyree's work at their website here: http://www.cyreejarellejohnson.com/

Week 9 also concluded our unit centered on the question How is Innocence Constructed?

• Eunjung Kim, “Asexuality in Disability Narratives” (cw: ableism)
• Mia Mingus, “Changing the Framework: Disability Justice”
• Stay Solid!, Mia Mingus, pg 207
• Stay Solid!, Hildebrant, pg292-293 (cw: fatphobia)
• Robert McRuer, “Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Existence”
• Michel Desjardins, “The Sexualized Body of the Child” from Sex and Disability (cw: ableism, eugenics, compulsory sterilization)
• Meda Kahn, Strange Horizons “Difference of Opinion”
• Joe Kadi, “Making Sense of My Happy Childhood/Creating Theory,” from Thinking Class (cw: explicit descriptions of child sexual assault)
• Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, Social Silence and Child Sexual Abuse (cw: child sexual assault)
• Optional: Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, “Disease is Not a Metaphor” (cw: ableism)
• Optional: Alison Kafer, “Debating Feminist Futures” (cw: ableist, eugenicist, queerphobic rhetoric)
• Check out: Kids As Self Advocates

Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18rZZ1o4HXy3lg-MLlvgjUmSgRAQ5dTZ26zfFir0vqro/edit?usp=sharing

Concept map created in class