John Duffy and I are co-editing a special issue of Disability Studies Quarterly on disability and rhetoric. I’ve pasted the call for papers below, as many of those reading have research interests in disability and its intersections with rhetoric, language, literacy, and/or media. DSQ is an interdisciplinary journal, and we’re looking for (m)any disciplinary perspectives [...]
A couple of the listervs I subscribe to have been debating the term “aspie,” and most contributors have described aspie/autie as cutesy, shiny awfulness. The discussion has provided me with some interesting reading material, if only because I’ve named my blog aspie rhetor of all things. But really, when I hear aspie, I hear ass [...]
A delayed post on my end, but I have my candidacy exams as an excuse. (I’ve completed the written portion, and I move onto the oral this Thursday, yikes.) On October 11, I helped to lead an ASAN protest against the Autism Speaks walk at Ohio State’s campus. As I now have the benefit of [...]
