The politics of mad femme disclosure
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12459495 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shayda Kafai (California State Polytechnic University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 182-194 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Lesbian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1089-4160 • E-ISSN: 1540-3548 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10894160.2020.1778851 |
| PMID | 32619150 |
| OpenAlex | W3040680629 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 20 |
This essay imagines mad femme politics as an intervention and as a strategy that moves disabled, chronically ill, and mad educators and learners toward collective access and liberation. Using personal narrative, femme theory, and mad studies as reference points, the essay explores how a queering of tenderness and vulnerability can empower and embolden the process of disclosure
Aesthetics · Art · Intervention (counseling · Literature · Narrative · Personal narrative · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology
Mad at School
Academic Ableism
The Persistent desire
Social Work and Foster Care
The Mad Border Body
My Dangerous Desires
Living a Feminist Life
Locating Femme Theory Online
Visualizing Madness
Mad matters
Supporting the sustainability of Mad Studies and preventing its co-option
Ableism in academia
Visible lesbians and invisible bisexuals
Femmebodiment
Living a Feminist Life
| Citations per year | 1.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |