Introduction
Introduction: Mobilizing Metaphor / Christine Kelly and Michael Orsini
Part 1: Assemblages of Disability Research, Art, and Social Transformation
1 Fixing: The Claiming and Reclaiming of Disability History / Catherine Frazee, Kathryn Church, and Melanie Panitch
2 Imagining Otherwise: The Ephemeral Spaces of Envisioning New Meanings / Carla Rice, Eliza Chandler, and Nadine Changfoot
3 PosterVirus: Claiming Sexual Autonomy for People with HIV through Collective Action / Alexander McClelland and Jessica Whitbread
4 Deaf and Disability Arts: Insiders, Outsiders, and the Potential of Progressive Studios / Kristin Nelson
5 “It Fell on Deaf Ears”: Deafhood through the Graphic Signed Novel as a Form of Artivism / Véro Leduc
Part 2: Artistic Paths to Disability Activism
6 (Dis)quiet in the Peanut Gallery: Performing Social Justice through Integrated Dance / Lindsay Eales
7 Battle Lines Drawn: Creative Resistance to Ableism through Online Media / Jeffrey Preston
8 Deconstructing Phonocentrism: A New Genre in Deaf Arts / Paula Bath
9 Crip the Light Fantastic: Art as Liminal Emancipatory Practice in the Twenty-First Century / jes sachse
10 Claiming “the Masters” for Disability Rights: An Artist’s Journey / Diane Driedger
Part 3: Rethinking Agency in Canadian Disability Movements
11 Perching as a Strategy for Seeking Legitimacy for Broken Embodiments: Embracing Biomedical Claims for ME / Pamela Moss
12 Challenging Rhetorical Indifference with a Cripped Poetry of Witness / Jen Rinaldi and nancy viva davis halifax
13 The Body as Resistance Art/ifact: Disability Activism during the 2012 Quebec Student Movement / Gabriel Blouin Genest
14 Divided No More: The Toronto Disability Pride March and the Challenges of Inclusive Organizing / Melissa Graham and Kevin Jackson
15 Accountability, Agency, and Absence: Embodying Radical Disability Values in Artistic Production / Drew Danielle Belsky
Conclusion: The Politics of Embracing Disability Metaphor / Tanya Titchkosky
Index