Across
- 4. Someone that is silent as a result of societal expectations, trauma, social pressures, or physical and/or mental limitations. Something that Rowan McCandless and Maya Angelou have struggled with, for different reasons.
- 5. Non-apparent or overlooked disability. Audre Lorde's glasses. Rowan McCandless' muteness. Elissa Washuta's alcoholism and mental illnesses.
- 6. Understanding of the self and the body, as well as your relationship with it and with others through the body. Eli Clare's suggestion of the body as home.
- 8. The preconceived societal notions that transform impairment into disability. The Mountain and how it is baked into us as something that we should desire to overcome, as though it is even possible.
- 11. The imprisoning feeling of inaccessibility. How Alice Wong felt when she needed people to help push her manual wheelchair.
- 13. The mundane becomes extraordinary simply by virtue of the fact that it is done by a cripple. Eli Clare's concept. The reason Alice Wong in "Storytelling as Activism" works to normalize disabled ways of living.
- 14. Physically obvious disability, unable to "pass" as unimpaired. The obviousness of Alice Wong's disability after getting her wheelchair.
- 16. The systematic and societal limitations imposed by society in response to people that do not fit the standard ideal. The way that Alice Wong describes always having to be an activist because she was born impaired.
- 17. Disability [blank] enable people to go about their day to day lives. Audre Lorde's glasses being so important in her day to day living that it feels like an extension of herself.
- 18. Model of disability, disability as tragedy. Shown in "Exile and Pride" in the passage on disability advertisements.
Down
- 1. Capable, within the purview of your body's limits. Eli Claire asking if he would be [blank] to traverse this mountain path.
- 2. Freedom, a sense of control over yourself and your life, hard-earned and harder-kept. Rowan McCandless' work to separate her voice from her ex-husband's and make it her own.
- 3. What happens when stigma is mixed into models of disability, the valuing of different lives based on different social systems. The Mountain itself.
- 7. The physical and mental limitations imposed by the body and the mind. Audre Lorde's blindness. Rowan McCandless and Maya Angelou's muteness. Eli Clare's Cerebral Palsy.
- 9. Experiencing and navigating more than one social system at a time, how those systems interact. The unique ways that Teresa Burke's ("Rendered Mute") children will suffer because of their diverse heritage.
- 10. Autonomy and control, with easy access and no restraint. The feeling Alice Wong felt when getting her electric wheelchair in "First Person Political".
- 12. Model of disability, disability as punishment. The way Maya Angelou perceived her muteness.
- 15. Model of disability, disability as a physiological deficit. The doctor declaring Maya Angelou 'cured' of her muteness. The judgement and scrutiny Teresa Burke faces for having biological children.