ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights how similar and distinct forms of abjection result in dis/similar outcomes and experiences. Whereas the previous chapter highlights Deb’s abjection as a cyclical experience, this chapter highlights Roger’s life history narrative as fragmented, opaque, and uncertain. Roger’s life history narrative also exposes how abjection is a constant threat—even from ‘friends’—and that abject bodies are constantly subjected to the authority of others. Importantly, Roger’s story also demonstrates how resistance to abjection is difficult. While he now resists through engagement with the self-advocacy movement, his life has no clear resolution, or agential cut, such as that in Deb’s narrative.
