Skip to main content

Self Representation and Visibility

All three of these papers discuss the ways that traditional academia has ignored the voices of people who identify as disabled, how people with disabilities can and should be included in academic work, and the ways that people with disabilites are employing new media for positive self representation and communication.

Presentations

Wanting to be Heard: Deaf People Telling their Personal Stories

Presenters

Dolphia Butler

Is social media the new spotlight for disability exposure?

Presenters

Truett Lee Vaigneur Scott Sheidlower

Listening to Disabled Fans: Access, Fandoms, and Interrogating Fan Studies' Research Ethics

Presenters

Katherine Anderson Howell

Session chairs

Meredith Guthrie