A provocation to reclaim our Disability Lineage in order to profoundly reimagine the possibilities for our relationship to disability, kinship, and carework Disability is often described as a tragedy, a crisis, or an aberration, though 1 in 5 people worldwide have a disability.
All Our Families challenges us to re-lineate Disability within the family as a means of repair toward a more inclusive and flexible structure of care and community..
Such a Lineage offers a means of seeing Disability in the context of a collective sense of belonging, as cause for celebration, and is a call for a radical reimagining of carework and kinship.
Inspired by queer and critical race theory, Fink calls for a Lineage of Disability a reclamation of Disability as a history, a culture, and an identity.
Fink analyzes our racist and sexist care systems, exposing their inequities as a source of stigmatizing ableism.
By examining the rhetoric of genetic testing, she shows that a fear of Disability begins before a child is even born and that a fear of Disability is, fundamentally, a fear of care.
Weaving together stories of members of her own family with sociohistorical research, Fink illustrates how the eradication of disabled people from family narratives is rooted in racist, misogynistic, and antisemitic sorting systems inherited from Nazis.
This makes Disability and its diagnosis traumatic and exceptional.
When we cut a disabled member out of the family story, Disability remains a trauma as opposed to a shared and ordinary experience.
Why is this common human experience rendered exceptional? In All Our Families , Disability studies scholar Jennifer Natalya Fink argues that this originates in our families.
A provocation to reclaim our Disability Lineage in order to profoundly reimagine the possibilities for our relationship to disability, kinship, and carework Disability is often described as a tragedy, a crisis, or an aberration, though 1 in 5 people worldwide have a disability
