By Being HUMAN: A Collaborative Self-Study of Intersectional and Emotional Disability Narratives Within Higher Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Grappling with the relationship between dis/ability and emotion narrative inquiry, the authors’ autoethnography asks, “What is the relationship between dis/ability and emotion narrative inquiry utilizing Disability Studies in Education (DSE) and how are intersections of dis/ability navigated through cultural-historical, policy and professional intersections? Our voices illuminate: 1) master narratives impacting self, 2) how dis/abled women of color elevate dignity and spiritual practices subverting and speak-back to master narratives, 3) emotional impact of Learning Disability labeling, 4) forms of epistemic and personal experiences at various institutions of higher education, and 5) the liberatory practices co-created with students concerning disability identity within higher education. This collaboration contributes to theorizing critical emotion praxis friendship within diverse positionalities in DSE.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Narrative Research

Chairs

• Laurie Gutmann Kahn, Moravian College

• David Isaac Hernandez-Saca, University of Northern Iowa

Papers

• Construction of Awareness - Lisa Boskovich, Thompson Policy Institute

• My Voice Intertangled With Other Black Women With Dis/abilities and Tensions Narrated With Critical Disability Studies Colleagues in Education - Mercedes Adell Cannon, Indiana University - Indianapolis

• Letting Go of LDis/ability at My Intersections of Pain Through Poetry - David Isaac Hernandez-Saca, University of Northern Iowa

• Office Confidential: Narratives of Generational Academic Ableism - Laurie Gutmann Kahn, Moravian College

• Impossible Spaces: Trauma and Navigating Deficit Ideologies Within Higher Education - Emily A. Nusbaum, Mills College

Discussant

• Mercedes Adell Cannon, Indiana University - Indianapolis