Week 12 Response

5. Phrase used by the Korean birth control movement; eugenic equation that able bodies spur national economic growth and political power
7. Terms of this nature move away from the visual nature of visibility and shift the noticing or not noticing disability onto the perceiving person rather than onto the visibility of a disability
8. A term that refers to a broader geopolitical understanding of how the human/animal/plant triad is unstable and varies across time and space
9. A Korean documentary centered around the story of a woman with brittle bone disease who desires to become a mother, despite the immense risks a pregnancy would pose to her
11. The exercise of force to erase differences for the putative benefit of the Other
12. A term meaning the restoration of health; to be meaningful, it must be accompanied by disability

1. Exploits the tension created between the discursive certainty of heredity and the uncertainty of reproductive chance
2. Korean word meaning sick person
3. A metalanguage; a trope of difference, arbitrarily contrived to produce and maintain relations of power and subordination
4. A genre of literature that explores the ability to to move between varying states of ability and disability due to changes in bodyminds and/or spaces
6. The way speculative fiction texts make the familiar social concepts of disability, race, gender, and sexuality unfamiliar in order to encourage readers to question the meanings and boundaries of these categories
10. Term invented by Darwin’s cousin; to ‘fix’ and ‘improve’ the essence of a race