Disability describes a condition that is both more othered from and profoundly closer to one’s body than any other political condition that I can think of. It is a radical encounter with the needs of that body and therefore the ways in which that body’s autonomy is limited and its dependency decided—and this dependency, this ontology of need, is what yokes it into a matrix of power: how it has, or does not have, power, and what sort of material conditions that determines.
