No Longer the Only One in the Room

The article is an edited transcription of a three-way conversation, or trialogue, chronicling a collective participation in the emergence and growth of disability studies over the past thirty years. The authors divide their memories into specific sites or “rooms,” both public and private, where they discover the power and pleasure of uniting to create change. They map a journey from uncertainty and isolation in the past to solidarity and support in the present which sustains them as colleagues and friends. Along the way they mark moments of institutional acceptance and collaborative innovations. They celebrate their particular form of interdependence, an expertise that comes from their singular and joint observations of their lives as disabled women and academics. They claim their place in a world that still wants to ignore or exclude them, in the hopes that this claiming will continue to make space for disability scholars and activists of the future

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