This Bridge Called My Bodymind: The Disabled Queer of Color Bodymind as Transformational Activism

• In Event: Moscone Center North Roundtable Session 5
  In Roundtable Session: Beyond the Binary: Unraveling Gendered Discourses Across the Curriculum

Abstract

Drawing from the principals of disability justice and queer feminist of color theory, this paper explores the ways in which the bodymind of a disabled queer of color ethnographer serves as a form of intersectional, collaborative, and transformational activism in a local and rural K-5 school setting. This transdisciplinary analysis weaves together the fields of critical disability studies and queer feminist of color studies through analyzing the power and possibilities of the researcher’s bodymind as an inevitable collaboration which addresses inequitable disparities in society, divisions between theoretical frameworks, and divides between local K-12 schools and higher education settings. This paper depicts the ways in which the researcher’s bodymind bridges together multiple spaces, theories, practices, and worlds.

Author

• Paulina Abustan, Western Washington University