Article I first drafted two years ago now, published today in Canadian Journal of Disabilities Studies,
Vol 8, Iss 4, Survivals, Ruptures, Resiliences.

This is my first artile published in a peer reviewed journal, so:
Whoohoo!

Big up from my voices and and big thanks from me to Katie Albrecht on the editorial team who offered me much patience supporing me in cutting through the crap and “gettin’ me ‘ead round” what I needed to do, and to J, Jeigh, Jay who prodded and poked me to do it in the first place, when could make neither ” ‘ead-nor-tail” of what the call for submissions actually said and dismissed it as just yet another load of ol’ academical masturbatory intellectual wankfest bollocky bollocks.

Whoohoo!

You can read it here:

• https://cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cjds/article/view/525/789

Along with the contributions of many  others here:
https://cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php

Vol 8 No 4 (2018): Survivals, Ruptures, Resiliences

This special issue of the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies (CJDS) includes 18 original works that critically examine survival and resilience as socio-political phenomena. The volume of contributions in this issue suggest the complexities of survival and resilience are important current considerations for critical disability studies scholarship and praxis. Drawing on interdisciplinary disability and mad studies perspectives, and a wide range of methodologies, including autoethnography, poetry, photography, art, commentary, as well more traditional academic methods for sociological and social-geographical, genealogical, and geopolitical analysis, these works expose, resist and rupture unexamined relations to difference and adversity.

Published: 2019-07-01

https://cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cjds/issue/view/28?fbclid=IwAR2V1jxyXWlsYhh3CpNZqH8OpBzYm1TMwsFzPQL9BqQTioYx13BH0bFRnuo

Thanks as always to Reviews Editor Tobin Haley, to our accessibility partner AbleDocs (www.abledocs.com), and to Gerard Salisi, Graham Faulkner and Jordan Hale at the University of Waterloo.

This issue, themed around Survival and Resilience, was co-edited by Dr. Katie Aubrecht and Dr. Nancy La Monica.

From the Foreword:

“This special issue includes 18 original works that critically examine survival and resilience as socio-political phenomena. The volume of contributions in this issue suggest the complexities of survival and resilience are important current considerations for critical disability studies scholarship and praxis. Drawing on interdisciplinary disability and mad studies perspectives, and a wide range of methodologies, including autoethnography, poetry, photography, art, commentary, as well more traditional academic methods for sociological and social-geographical, genealogical, and geopolitical analysis, these works expose, resist and rupture unexamined relations to difference and adversity.”

FOREWORD

Complexities of Survival and Resilience
Katie Aubrecht, Nancy La Monica

CREATIVE WORKS

Do You Know Why You’re Here?
nancy viva davis halifax

Caterpillar; Autumn Leaves; Daffodils; Last Day
Andrea Nicki

ARTICLES

Storytelling Beyond the Psychiatric Gaze-Resisting resilience and recovery narratives
Jijian Voronka

Including Our Self In Struggle Challenging the neo-liberal psycho-system’s subversion of us, our ideas and action
Peter Beresford

Brain Injury Survivors: Impairment, Identity and Neoliberalism
Mark Sherry

Resistance is Resilience
Kevin Healey

Resilience Governance a good place for disabled people to shape and resist problematic resilience discourses?
Gregor Wolbring, Nicole Mfoafo-M’Carthy

Living with Herbert: Mediating Survival and Resilience
Samira Rajabi

Diaspora: Dislocation and its Resentment, or, the Impossible Dialogue of “Safe Space”
Essya M. Nabbali

“Like Bananas with Brown Spots” Epilepsy, Embodiment, Vulnerability and Resilience in South Asia
Aparna Nair     

Whose Disability (Studies)?
Defetishizing Disablement of the Iranian Survivors of the Iran-Iraq War by (Re)Telling their Resilient Narratives of Survival
Sona Kazemi Hill

Absence and Epidemic
Autism and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Indigenous populations in Canada
Caleigh Estelle Inman

On Survival and Education: An Academic’s Perspective on Disability
Shad Alshammari

The ‘Nothing But’
University Student Mental Health and the Hidden Curriculum of Academic Success
Katie Aubrecht

Designing Access Together: Surviving the Demand for Resilience
Esther Ignagni, Eliza Chandler, Kim Collins, Andy Darby, Kirsty Liddiard

Navigating the Terrain of Dis/Ability
An Autoethnographic Cartography
Susan Docherty-Skippen

ART

Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors; Balancing the World; Underwater Wheeling; Dream of Life; Water of the World
Elaine Stewart

REVIEW ARTICLES

Reimagined Story
Kelly O’Neil

REVIEWS

Review of Jameel Hampton (2016), “Disability and the Welfare State in Britain: Changes in Perception and Policy 1948-79”
Fallon Burns

Review of Bonnie Burstow (2017), “The Other Mrs. Smith”
Sona Kazemi Hill