ABSTRACT
This chapter enters and more closely rub elbows with the craft of designer disability through engaging with omnipotent words, text, and imagery. The particular concern in the chapter is in one area of reading disability studies language. The linguistic crafts of disability studies steeped in postmodernism suffocate new ideas. The cannon of disability studies reflect the postmodern criticism of deconstruction. Through its own linguistic style, vocabulary and reiteration of philosophy that has outlived its usefulness, too much of the disability studies language achieves what it claims to oppose, the identification and thus segregation of atypical bodies from human diversity. The words, phrases, and sequencing that comprise respectful disability language are cobbled by committee for the purpose of political correctness. The chapter suggests that the word disability itself should be read as a designer moniker, one that is born out of political correctness, exercising its craft to derail humane innovation, and one that is first in line for undesign and redesign.
