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Sandy Ho & Keah Brown - JOY - Coggle Diagram
Sandy Ho & Keah Brown - JOY
_"Taking up space as a disabled person is always revolutionary" (115)
joy as resistance: by taking up space and finding joy in your identity fully as it exists in the margins can be liberating and therefore an act of resistance
morphs into force for change
DisabledAndCute - interrupts ableist fantasies that disabled people can't be happy; adds more melanin to the visual landscape (Keah Brown)
COMMUNITY and solidarity as a way of fighting back
"narrative of worthy and unworthy bodies" (115)
language and vocabulary has deep ties to the ways we shape personhood (114):
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negative ways (infantalizing/treating like glass) or with disdain (useless/scary)
What's sparking joy
classmates that are talking and answering questions
continuing conversations outside of class
connecting classwork to seeing things playing out in real time
knowing the coursework has stakes for one's life
experiential learning
intellectual convos around campus
watching cool films in class and for credit
q&a with filmmakers
taking classes that literally don't exist in other spaces
seeing oneself in the course materials
getting really comfortable with experimentation/creativity mindset
self-care
living unapologetically; enjoying being happy!
"My joy is my freedom" (120)
"I won't leave this earth without the world knowing that I chose to live" (12)