(rather long) summary of My body, My Closet:Invisible disability and the limits of coming out by Ellen Samuels
By ndifrankOctober 27, 2014 - 01:49
Ellen Samuels sets out to " queer disability". Critques Swains idea that homosexuality and disability in general have a lot in common because people from either or both communities experience a coming out process in that society assumes that everyone is straight and able bodied until told otherwise. Samuels find that Swain' and Cameron's anaolgy is that "coming out" is implied to be a single event when it may be an action, self acceptance, or political shift. Samuels talks about how people with non visable disabilities and non heterosexual people both share the ability to "pass". There is a privilege that people with non visable disabilities have because of their ability to be able to assimulate.