With author Anastasia Todd
Respondent:
Courtney Colligan, PhD
Teaching Assistant Professor
Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies
University of Pittsburgh
Abstract: In this talk, Dr. Anastasia Todd will discuss parts of her forthcoming book Cripping Girlhood, which offers a new theorization of disabled girls and girlhoods, tracing how and why the disabled girl frequently emerges in twenty-first century US media culture. Through an analysis of a wide array of media, from TikTok videos to HBO documentaries, the book answers the question, ‘why disabled girls, why now?’, and reveals how the exceptional figure of the disabled girl most often appears in contemporary media culture as a resource to work through post-Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) anxieties about the family, healthcare, labor, citizenship, and the precarity of the bodymind.
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