ABSTRACT

Defining disability as a condition that shapes how people do things instead of an identity that characterizes who they are, transforms it into an ever-evolving, nonessential, social construction that is nearly universal. This definition captures our animality and underscores how every mind and body is in some state of change. Identities are fluid, and cannot be bound to static categories like race or gender. As the French critical theorists Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari observe, we are ‘‘bodily becoming.’’