PORTRAITS OF DISABILITY AND DIFFERENCE

Writing Seminar 118, Fall 2023                                              Prof. Kristin Lindgren

Tuesday/Thursday 2:30-4 PM                                                klindgre@haverford.edu

Union 114                                                                                          office hours by appointment                                                                                                                                                 

COURSE DESCRIPTION                      

Hey everyone! Thanks for a really great semester. I've linked my joint final with Sarah here. If you have any issues accessing the document let me know. Happy reading!

PORTRAITS OF DISABILITY AND DIFFERENCE

Writing Seminar 118, Fall 2022                                              Prof. Kristin Lindgren

Tuesday/Thursday 2:30-4 PM                                                klindgre@haverford.edu

Hall 106                                                                               office hours by appointment                                                                                                                                                 

COURSE DESCRIPTION                      

Hi everyone, my final project talks about the relationship between art and disability, since we've been discussing CCW and multiple mediums of art that the community have created and its such a vibrant field to dig deeper in. This is a narrated PPT, where each slide accompanies a short audio clip that once you click on it, plays the presentation for the slide. Hope you enjoy!

Hi everyone, my final project talks about the relationship between art and disability, since we've been discussing CCW and multiple mediums of art that the community have created and its such a vibrant field to dig deeper in. This is a narrated PPT, where each slide accompanies a short audio clip that once you click on it, plays the presentation for the slide. Hope you enjoy!

Literature Review on ABA, critical analysis of history of ABA

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rQ-TNsvw5e-f84z0GL2Fg36u8eoT-Y7bSUf8q40ET9c/edit?usp=sharing

Pamphlet - Resources for Families

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xhcZEQas9WA0UgWbrJg4JoCIHBNtRkTKg-gfDToefos/edit?usp=sharing

Below, I will attach my midterm project, a comic about eugenics and statistics. If you would like to listening to an audio recoding of the comic, click on this link 

https://youtu.be/8fby9oXlVek

Please let me know if there are any issues with the link.

reading the "Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life" reminded me of "The Collected Schizophrenias Essays" by Esme Weijun Wang, so i wanted to talk more about the presence of mental illness/madness and how it affects our experiences in academics. Esme Wang's chapter, "Yale Will Not Save You", details how her experience at Yale defined her as a schizoaffective person, and how, eventually, the misdiagnosis of Bipolar disorder, the hesitancy to treat and medicate, and the pushout of mentally ill students led to her suicidal and out of school.

The NPR podcast about the sterilization of women covers a lot of horrifying stuff. I am aware of the inhumane practices of mental asylums back in the day, since I did an internship last summer doing research on the racist practices in asylums in the pre-Civil War era. Patients were often isolated from others and physically constricted using straps and other tools, and the patients who experienced the worst treatment were those in public asylums that were overcrowded and underfunded. But I didn't know about the practice of sterilization in asylums, though, unfortunately, it doesn't surprise me at this point.