Moira Armstrong
Biographic Data
| ID | 6590302 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Moira Armstrong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Moira |
| FAMILY NAME | Armstrong |
| SIGNATURE | ARMSTRONG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“Lovelies on Wheels”
This article examines the Miss Wheelchair America pageant in the 1970s as a cultural and political space that produced a specific message about the intersections of womanhood, disability, and citizenship. The pageant elevated contestants who performed normative femininity, beauty, heterosexuality, and whiteness, while narratively framing disability through the trope of individual accomplishment, thus eliding both individual embodied experience an…
Choosing to Remember
In this article, I draw on oral histories from the Queer Pandemic project conducted with queer disabled and nondisabled people in England about their experiences in relation to the process of “returning to normal” once COVID-19 precautions were lifted. I analyze their experiences through the lens of the disabled oracle, arguing that the wisdom gained from an oracle perspective allowed queer disabled people to prioritize their cripistemologies des…
The Other Significant Others
Rhaina Cohen's The Other Significant Others focuses on a unique type of relationship: “friends who have become a we, despite having no scripts, no ceremonies, and precious few models to guide them toward long-term platonic commitment” (6). Each chapter profiles a set of friends with this type of relationship and challenges deep-rooted social assumptions about meaningful relationships through their examples. Throughout the book, provocative questi…
Queer collective memory during the time of Covid
Oral history collections both rely on and preserve community memories, and are of importance for understanding marginalized communities, particularly when they privilege minority voices. This article draws from original, video-based oral histories conducted for the United Kingdom's national LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, and others) museum, Queer Britain, focusing on an ongoing collection of oral histories organiz…
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Queer collective memory during the time of Covid
Oral history collections both rely on and preserve community memories, and are of importance for understanding marginalized communities, particularly when they privilege minority voices. This article draws from original, video-based oral histories conducted for the United Kingdom's national LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, and others) museum, Queer Britain, focusing on an ongoing collection of oral histories organiz…
The Other Significant Others
Rhaina Cohen's The Other Significant Others focuses on a unique type of relationship: “friends who have become a we, despite having no scripts, no ceremonies, and precious few models to guide them toward long-term platonic commitment” (6). Each chapter profiles a set of friends with this type of relationship and challenges deep-rooted social assumptions about meaningful relationships through their examples. Throughout the book, provocative questi…
“Lovelies on Wheels”
This article examines the Miss Wheelchair America pageant in the 1970s as a cultural and political space that produced a specific message about the intersections of womanhood, disability, and citizenship. The pageant elevated contestants who performed normative femininity, beauty, heterosexuality, and whiteness, while narratively framing disability through the trope of individual accomplishment, thus eliding both individual embodied experience an…
Choosing to Remember
In this article, I draw on oral histories from the Queer Pandemic project conducted with queer disabled and nondisabled people in England about their experiences in relation to the process of “returning to normal” once COVID-19 precautions were lifted. I analyze their experiences through the lens of the disabled oracle, arguing that the wisdom gained from an oracle perspective allowed queer disabled people to prioritize their cripistemologies des…
Disability Rights and Representation (2 works) · Pandemic (2 works) · Queer (2 works) · Ableism (1 works) · Agency (philosophy (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Center (category theory (1 works) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 (1 works) · Disability studies (1 works) · Disabled people (1 works)