All Our Families Audiobook Libro.fm

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A provocation to reclaim our disability lineage in order to profoundly reimagine the possibilities for our relationship to disability kinship and carework

Disability is often described as a tragedy a crisis or an aberration though 1 in 5 people worldwide have a disability Why is this common human experience rendered exceptional In All Our Families disability studies scholar Jennifer Natalya Fink argues that this originates in our families When we cut a disabled member out of the family story disability remains a trauma as opposed to a shared and ordinary experience This makes disability and its diagnosis traumatic and exceptional

Weaving together stories of members of her own family with sociohistorical research Fink illustrates how the eradication of disabled people from family narratives is rooted in racist misogynistic and antisemitic sorting systems inherited from Nazis By examining the rhetoric of genetic testing she shows that a fear of disability begins before a child is even born and that a fear of disability is fundamentally a fear of care Fink analyzes our racist and sexist care systems exposing their inequities as a source of stigmatizing ableism

Inspired by queer and critical race theory Fink calls for a lineage of disability a reclamation of disability as a history a culture and an identity Such a lineage offers a means of seeing disability in the context of a collective sense of belonging as cause for celebration and is a call for a radical reimagining of carework and kinship All Our Families challenges us to relineate disability within the family as a means of repair toward a more inclusive and flexible structure of care and community