This interview completely blew my mind. Judith Butler and Sunaura Taylor's conversation was unlike anything I have ever read or even though about before reading this interview. My mother is a special education teacher who teaches high school students who have varying levels and kinds of disabilities. I have always fancied myself as being comfortable and non-judgmental around people with disabilities, and I still feel that I am, but this interview caused me to reflect on every interatction I have had with various disabiled people.
The part of the article that I found most interesting was the dialogue about using your mouth in ways that are culturally unacceptable. I love the language in Sunaura Taylor's quote "Something I am very interested in: how disabled people can creatively do or reinvent those movements. Or how they can create a concept of what a movement is..."(191). Once again this completely blew my mind. The idea of breaking down something so culturally ingraned and basic, such as how one should use your mouth, is an awe inspiring task as well as theoretically fanscinating. I loved this article and hope to read more about the study of disability.
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