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The stigma of dependency is one of the greatest barriers to archieving disability rights.

Two forms: repressed chilhood castration anxietwis that ego keeps at bay and atavistic primitive cultural form upon which civilisation erects it edifce.

The uncanny, as we know from Freud is the return of something so familiar that is rendered strange.

What is death? When is death? Who owns the body?

What?

disturbing

brain death and cardic death

How we are percieved if we ar to be perciaved at all? For most part we are invisible.

Blue - film about Aids where everything is blue and we hear only sound cause the one living w/ aids lost its vision

musseum as a historically and culturally limited concept - defined by an age of collecting, consuption and categorisation. What would it mean to reenter (.) /w guide dog or white cane?

Ater trying my animal noise/i break out with man's cry - poem by Larry Eigner?

Nancy Mairs: Perhaps I want them to wince. I want them to see me as a tough customer, one to whom the fates/gods/viruses have not been kind but who can face the brutal truth of her existance squerely. As a cripple, I swagger.

Laying on the bed at midnight listening to birds outside, the poet feels like radio

The antiwar movement grew out of pacifist and anti-imperialist politics of 19st. Feminism grew out of suffragism and the labor movement. Disabled persons were treated as madical cases best kept out of sight (.) Nor was the disability community united in its goals and social agendas.

I am haunted by those words: "My man, where is the man i love? My mother can hear and can sign." My father can hear but cannot sign. (.) My man, where is the man i love?

Verbal languge is based on arbitrary relationship of word and thing. Chinese pictorial language retains the image of the thing in a character, much us, in acustic terms onomatopeia imitates sound

Bio power - institusation of human body.
Bio power average body against which others should be measured.

Russeau tells that the ones who do not speek are animals. That usage of conventional language is what makes us humans. - I dont like u. Dude go to sleep.

Oralism and stigmatisation of sign language and Dear culture
Deaf must be preformed.

Classic noir films and how the abled see a missing limb like missing the d in S.Freud guy words - disabled bodies being desexualised and fear of castration and women in power, and something about cold wars

Seeing the hemo boys as feminine becouse they bleed once (0r more) times a month and avoid sports= theat to musculinity - somehow linked to queernes?

the extent to which someone called queer recognises herself or himself as the object of such speech act

Is queer an identitiy or set of pracises?

Can a medical condition or disability be constructed as queer?

Links between hemophilia - vampirism - antisemitism

What if the vampires were hemos and needed blood to survive and thats why they kept blood in the fridge but someone saw and spread goosip about them drinking blood?

medical closet - love the term!

hemo-homo wars - Link between hemophilia, Hiv and homophobia

I see what you did there: Cultural identities are often based on inary terms but one based on blood would have to be in the most literal sense fluid and pourous

Unbelievable!

Whose life is worth living?