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Unit 1: Introduction to the Course

Required Reading
Davis, Lennard J. “Chapter 2: Constructing Normalcy.” Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body, Verso, 1995, pp. 23–49. ACLS Humanities E-Books.
Required Viewing
Newnham, Nicole, and Jim LeBrecht, dir. Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution. Netflix. YouTube, 2020. (1:46 hr)
Preparation for Forum 2: Crip Camp Documentary
Young, Stella. “We’re Not Here for Your Inspiration.” Ramp Up, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), 12 July 2012.
Supplementary Reading and Viewing
Peers, Danielle, Lindsey Eales, and Melisa Brittain. “G.I.M.P. Bootcamp.” Vimeo, KingCrip Productions, 2008. (8 min)
Brittain, Melisa, and Lucas Crawford, dir. “Elephant in the Room.” Vimeo, KingCrip Productions, 2021. (4:36 min)
Rodier, Kristin, and Melisa Brittain. “ ‘Blow that Narrative Up’: A Conversation with Filmmaker Melisa Brittain.” YouTube, 2022. (25:03 min)
Schick, Erin. “Honest Speech.” YouTube, 2014. (3:19 min)
Newnham, Nicole, and Jim LeBrecht, dir. “Nicole Newnham & Jim LeBrecht | Co-Directors of Crip Camp.” The Doc Exchange: A Real Stories Podcast, season 1, episode 2, 2020. (34:00 min)
Taylor, Chloë. “Biopower.” Michel Foucault: Key Concepts, edited by Dianna Taylor, Routledge, 2014, pp. 41–54. ProQuest Ebook Central.
Gijsbers, Victor. “Chapter 2.5: Michel Foucault: Power.” Philosophy of the Humanities, Leiden University, 2017. YouTube. (9:57 min)

Unit 2: Racism Against the Abnormal

Required Reading
Meekosha, Helen. “Decolonising Disability: Thinking and Acting Globally.” Disability and Society, vol. 26, no. 3, 2011, pp. 667–682. Taylor & Francis Online.
Ineese-Nash, Nicole. “Disability as a Colonial Construct: The Missing Discourse of Culture in Conceptualizations of Disabled Indigenous Children.” Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, vol. 9, no. 3, Sept. 2020, pp. 26–51.
Simplican, Stacy Clifford. “Chapter 2: Manufacturing Anxiety: The Medicalization of Mental Defect.” The Capacity Contract: Intellectual Disability and the Question of Citizenship, University of Minnesota Press, 2015, pp. 47–70.
Supplementary Reading and Listening
Briggs, Laura. “The Race of Hysteria: ‘Overcivilization’ and the ‘Savage’ Woman in Late Nineteenth-Century Obstetrics and Gynecology.” American Quarterly, vol. 52, no. 2, 2000, pp. 246–273. JSTOR.
Schuller, Kyla, and Britt Rusert. “Sex, Power, and Nineteenth-Century Science: A Conversation with Kyla Schuller.” C19 Podcast, season 1, episode 8, c. 2019. SoundCloud. (34:04 min)
Indigenous Nations Poets/In-Na-Po. The Future Lives in Our Bodies: Indigeneity and Disability Justice Zine. Abalone Mountain Press, 2022.

Unit 3: Reproducing Normalcy

Required Reading
Schalk, Sami. “Chapter 2: Fighting Psychiatric Abuse: The BPP and the Black Disability Politics of Mental and Carceral Institutions.” Black Disability Politics, Duke University Press, 2022, pp. 48–68.
Schalk, Sami. “Chapter 3: Empowerment Through Wellness: Black Disability Politics in the National Black Women’s Health Project.” Black Disability Politics, Duke University Press, 2022, pp. 81–109.
Supplementary Listening, Viewing, and Reading
Harrison, Da’Shaun, and Anna North. “The Racist Origins of Fat Phobia.” The Gray Area with Sean Illing, 16 June 2022. Vox. Podchaser. (52:49 min)

You can play the episode from this page, or if you download it, you will have more play controls. Note that the episode is preceded by two commercials; it begins at about the one-minute point.
Pickens, Therí, and Mark Anthony Neal. “Left of Black with Dr. Therí Pickens.” Left of Black, 19 Oct. 2018. YouTube. (13:18 min)
Jackson, Zakiyyah Iman, and Emily Crandall. “Interview: Zakiyyah Iman Jackson on Becoming Human—Epistemic Unruliness.” Always Already Podcast, episode 30, 2 July 2020. (59:39 min)

The podcast also provides a transcript.
Davis, Angela Y. “Chapter 11: Rape, Racism, and the Myth of the Black Rapist.” Women, Race, & Class, Vintage, 1983.

To find the chapter, click on Chapter 11 in the table of contents or go to page 101 of the PDF.

Unit 4: Strong Families, Strong Nation

Required Reading
Farrell, Amy Erdman. “Chapter 4: Feminism, Citizenship, and Fat Stigma.” Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture, New York University Press, 2011, pp.  82–116. ProQuest Ebook Central.
Rubin, Gayle. Selection from “Chapter Nine: Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality.” Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality, edited by Carole S. Vance, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984, pp. 143–178.

Please read from the beginning of the chapter to the end of the continued paragraph at the top of page 155.
Lennon, Suzanne, and Danielle Peers. “ ‘Wrongful’ Inheritance: Race, Disability and Sexuality in Cramblett v. Midwest Sperm Bank.” Feminist Legal Studies, vol. 25, no. 2, 2017, pp. 141–163. Springer Link.
Supplementary Viewing, Reading, and Listening
Rodier, Kristin. 2023. “Mini-Lecture on Amy Farrell’s ‘Feminism, Citizenship, and Fat Stigma.’ ” Feminist Philosophy Lectures, 2023. YouTube.
Cassidy, Walter T. “Canada’s First Gay Bathhouse Raid: Windsor, 1964.” Archive History, 3 Mar. 2021.  
Dilts, Andrew. “Incurable Blackness: Criminal Disenfranchisement, Mental Disability, and the White Citizen.” Disability Studies Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 3, summer 2012. EBSCOhost.
Uenuma, Francine. “ ‘Better Babies’ Contests Pushed for Much-Needed Infant Health but also Played into the Eugenics Movement.” Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2019.
Strings, Sabrina, and Jonathan Van Ness. “How F$^*#d Up Is Fatphobia? with Professor Sabrina Strings.” Getting Curious, 18 May 2022. (1:02:14 hr)

Kim, Jina B. 2021. “Cripping the Welfare Queen: The Radical Potential of Disability Politics.” Social Text, vol. 39, no. 3 (148), 2021, pp. 79–101, doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9034390.

This reading is not available through AU Library, but if you have access to another academic library, it may be available there. Please see the journal’s WorldCat entry. To find a copy near you, click on the location given right above the library entries, and type in your own location by city or postal code.

Simplican, Stacy Clifford. “Rethinking Disability, Citizenship, and Intersectionality: New Directions for Political Science.” Turbulent Times, Transformational Possibilities? Gender and Politics Today and Tomorrow, 2020, pp. 326–348.

This reading is not available through AU Library, but if you have access to another academic library, it may be available there. Please see the book’s WorldCat entry. To find a copy near you, click on the location given right above the library entries, and type in your own location by city or postal code.
Rodier, Kristin. “Mask or No Mask: Stop Using Fat People in Political Cartoons.” The Conversation, 2 March 2022.

Unit 5: Cripping Theory

Required Reading
Johnson, Merri Lisa, and Robert McRuer. “Cripistemologies: Introduction.” Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, vol. 8, no. 2, 2014, pp. 127–147. Project Muse.
Mollow, Anna. “Criphystemologies: What Disability Theory Needs to Know About Hysteria.” Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, vol. 8, no. 2, 2014, pp. 185–201. Project Muse.
Hamraie, Aimi, and Kelly Fritsch. “Crip Technoscience Manifesto.” Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, vol. 5, no. 1, spring 2019. Gale Academic OneFile.
Supplementary Reading, Viewing, and Listening
Schalk, Sami. “Coming to Claim Crip: Disidentification With/In Disability Studies.” Disability Studies Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 2, spring 2013. EBSCOhost.
Schweik, Susan. “Lomax’s Matrix: Disability, Solidarity, and the Black Power of 504.” Disability Studies Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 1, winter 2011. EBSCOhost.
McRuer, Robert. “Robert McRuer on Crip Theory.” YouTube, 7 May 2016. (6:20 min)
Reynolds, Joel Michael, Lillian Cicerchia, Owen Glyn-Williams, Gil Morejón, and William Paris. “The Meaning of Disability (with Dr. Joel Michael Reynolds).” What’s Left of Philosophy? episode 22, 8 Oct 2021. Pod Link. (1:08 hr)

Unit 6: Peer Feedback

Required Viewing
UCD Teaching & Learning. “How to Give Constructive and Actionable Peer Feedback: Students to Students.” YouTube, 2022. (5:32 min)
Supplementary Viewing

Unit 7: ePresentations/Conference

Assignment 1: Glossary

Supplementary Resource
Zalta, Edward N., and Nodelman, Uri, eds. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. The Metaphysics Research Lab, Philosophy Department, Stanford University, 2024.

Assignment 2: Open Educational Resource (OER) Group Project

Required Reading
Vold, Veronica. “Quick Guide to Open Pedagogy for Students.” Open Oregon Educational Resources.

Please note that this was written for another context. You do not have access to the LBCC Student Open Pedagogy Consent Form, and are not expected to complete it.
Elder, Abbey K. “Planning and Completing Your OER Project.” The OER Starter Kit, Iowa State University Digital Press, 2019.