A review by philip_bonanno
Disability Rhetoric by Jay Timothy Dolmage

4.0

I really enjoyed hearing him talk about the boom and his application of his work to The Kings speech and Hephaestus/Medusa myths really helped to clarify the argument for me. I still think the argument overall is hard to navigate with critical disability identity production/veers dangerously close to rhetoric of we are all disabled/will all be disabled, in effect rhetoric that echoes a lot of rights based rhetoric. Pedagogically, I like how he redirects us at the end to think about how Métis could be used in the classroom. I think that space for invention and recursivity could be really generative as we think about how to reinvent accommodations and other disability spaces in the academy.