Research project
Together with feminist disability activists from different countries in the global north, this research project will examine how, by/for whom and for what purpose ableism has been discussed in scholarship and activism so far. The focus of this is how the interplay of (dis)ability, gender, social class, and race is considered in debates on ableism. Furthermore, it will be explored how the activists themselves critique ableism and notions of corporeal normality in their activism (including in their digital activism, for example on social media) and to what extent they thereby refer to various forms of disadvantage but also privilege that shape the effects of ableism. The 'stories' told through their (digital) activism against ableism are collected, written down collaboratively and interconnected. Together, the effects of ableism, both in relation to disability and beyond, on other women from the activists' communities will then be examined in discussion groups. The aim of the research project is to collaboratively create a feminist intersectional approach to ableism and to explore how such an approach reveals notions of ability (or rather ‘abledment’) in different contexts.