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Disability and Identity in the Media

This panel interrogates the myriad ways disability is incorporated to identity in the media as well as the use and mis-use of disability as a marker of identification. Panelists will use media texts such as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Stephen Kuusisto’s The Planet of the Blind, and the documentary Dx: One.

Presentations

Dames, Dudes, and the Disturbed: Intersecting Disability and Gender for the Creation of Self-Identity

Presenters

Amanda Kahalehoe

Passing as Abled; Passing as Disabled

Presenters

Judith Rita Phagan

When PSA’s Disappoint: The Social Construction of a T1D Identity

Presenters

Cynthia Martin

Session chairs

Meredith Guthrie