SE02 E05: Bonus episode: Misfits with Corinne Lajoie
Show notes for SE02 E05: Bonus episode: Misfits with Corinne Lajoie
Audio Note: In this episode, there was a small problem with Anna’s microphone that causes some extra noise at certain points in the recording. We were unable to remove that sound, so our apologies to sensitive ears!
Article:
Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie. 2011. "Misfits: A Feminist Materialist Disability Concept." Hypatia 26 (3): 591–609. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23016570.
Find more from Rosemarie Garland-Thomson here:
https://rosemariegarlandthomson.com/
Lecture by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, “Disability World-Making: Gender, Art, and Culture” at Western Washington University, 2026:https://youtu.be/Ix3fSOQQ5ew?si=8-P_MQaLmyKVFDrL
On the use of “Crip”
https://callingupjustice.com/crip/
And:
Schalk, S., (2013) “Coming to Claim Crip: Disidentification with/in Disability Studies”, Disability Studies Quarterly 33(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v33i2.3705
Background
Adams, Rachel, Benjamin Reiss, and David Serlin, eds. 2015. Keywords for Disability
Studies. New York: New York University Press.
Baynton, Douglas C. 1996. Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign against Sign Language. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Baynton, Douglas C. 2001. “Disability and the Justification of Inequality in American History.” In The New Disability History: American Perspectives, edited by Paul K. Longmore and Lauri Umansky, 33–57. New York: New York University Press.
Goodley, Dan. 2024. Disability Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction. Los Angeles: SAGE Publications.
More on what Corinne is up to:
Corinne’s professional website: https://www.corinnelajoie.com/
Work from Corinne:
Lajoie, Corinne. 2026. “Noticing Habits: Shifting the Burden of Responsibility.” Topoi. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-025-10364-4.
Lajoie, Corinne, and Nicholas Hardy. 2026. “Mapping Accessibility Concepts.” In Oxford Encyclopedia of Disability Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197852668.003.0030.
Lajoie, Corinne. 2022. “The Problems of Access: A Crip Rejoinder via the Phenomenology of Belonging.” Journal of the American Philosophical Association 8 (2): 318–337. https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2021.6.
Contributors: Emily R. Douglas, Vanier College and Athabasca University
Course from Emily and Kristin: https://www.athabascau.ca/syllabi/mais/mais658.html
Douglas, Emily R. 2023. “Frantz Fanon and Disability: Frictions and Solidarities.” In The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability, edited by Shelley Lynn Tremain, 314–38. London: Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350268937.0022
Douglas, Emily R. 2015. “Foucault, Laughter, and Gendered Normalization.” Foucault Studies, no. 20: 142–154. https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.v0i0.4934
Work from Emily and Corinne:
Lajoie, Corinne, and Emily R. Douglas. 2020. “A Crip Queer Dialogue on Sickness (Editors’ Introduction).” Puncta: Journal of Critical Phenomenology 3 (2): 1–14. https://doi.org/10.5399/pjcp.v3i2.1
Rhea Ienni, Loyola University
https://www.luc.edu/media/lucedu/philosophy/cv/Rhea_Ienni_CV.pdf
Work from Rhea
Ienni, Rhea. 2023. “Access Without the Demand for Explanation: Glissant, Disability, and the Right to Access Opacity.” The Journal of Philosophy of Disability 3: 71–92. https://doi.org/10.5840/jpd202391220.
Joel Michael Reynolds, Georgetown University
Work from Joel
Reynolds, Joel Michael. 2022. The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Reynolds, Joel Michael. 2017. “‘I’d Rather Be Dead Than Disabled’—The Ableist Conflation and the Meanings of Disability.” Review of Communication 17 (3): 149–63. https://doi.org/10.1080/15358593.2017.1331255 .
More on Feminist Philosophy of Disability
Tremain, Shelley. 2013. “Introducing Feminist Philosophy of Disability.” Disability Studies Quarterly 33 (4). https://doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v33i4.3877.
Kafer, Alison. 2013. Feminist, Queer, Crip. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Wendell, Susan. 1989. “Toward a Feminist Theory of Disability.” Hypatia 4 (2): 104–124. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1989.tb00576.x.
Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie. 2005. “Feminist Disability Studies.” Signs 30 (2): 1557–1587. https://doi.org/10.1086/423352.
Hall, Kim Q., ed. 2011. Feminist Disability Studies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Schalk, Sami. 2022. Black Disability Politics. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Mentioned in the episode:
Sara Ahmed, “Sweaty Concepts,” feminist killjoys,
https://feministkilljoys.com/2014/02/22/sweaty-concepts/
And Living a Feminist Life (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017) https://www.dukeupress.edu/living-a-feminist-life
Karen Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement
of Matter and Meaning (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007).
https://www.dukeupress.edu/meeting-the-universe-halfway
Caroline Walker Bynum, “Shape and Story: Metamorphosis in the Western Tradition”
(1999 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities on March 22 in the Concert Hall of the the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.), https://www.neh.gov/news/press-release/1999-03-22
[thinking bodies suggestion: if you want to return to Bynum’s paper, save as PDF in case the NEH site changes]
Eli Clare, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure (Durham, NC: Duke University
Press, 2017) https://eliclare.com/books/brilliant-imperfection/
Annika M. Konrad, (2021). “Access Fatigue: The Rhetorical Work of Disability in
Everyday Life.” College English, 83(3), 179–199. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26998253
Michel Foucault, "The Subject and Power", in Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics,
edited by H. Dreyfus and P. Rabinow (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983), 208-226. https://foucault.info/documents/foucault.power/
Marilyn Frye, “In and Out of Harm’s Way: Arrogance and Love,” in The Politics of
Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory (Trumansburg, NY: The Crossing Press, 1983), 52-83. https://www.femres.org/en/books/the-politics-of-reality
Mike Oliver, https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-349-20895-1;
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
(Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018) https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/C/Care-Work
Margaret Price, Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life
(Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024) https://www.dukeupress.edu/crip-spacetime
Margaret Price. (2015) “The Bodymind Problem and the Possibilities of Pain,” Hypatia
30(1), 268-284. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/hypa.12127
Rudolph! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_the_Red-Nosed_Reindeer_(TV_special)
Chela Sandoval (who describes “oppositional consciousness”), Methodology of the
Oppressed (Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 2000).
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816627370/methodology-of-the-oppressed/
Toy Story 5 (2026), Pixar TOY STORY 5 Trailer (2026) Pixar
Shelley Tremain, Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability (Ann Arbor, MI: The
University of Michigan Press, 2017) https://press.umich.edu/Books/F/Foucault-and-Feminist-Philosophy-of-Disability2
The Union Of The Physically Impaired Against Segregation and The Disability Alliance
Discuss Fundamental Principles of Disability
Desiree Valentine, "Shifting the weight of inaccessibility: access intimacy as critical
phenomenological ethos," Puncta 3(2) (2020), 76-94.
https://puncta.journals.villanova.edu/index.php/puncta/article/view/2809/2650