ABSTRACT

This chapter is an exploration in the seeking of truth and truths which emanate from reflections of the author's embodied living experiences along with a creative searching and living into theological understandings of God. Significant symbol is a symbol which Rhonda created after an important conference the author's attended in Wellington, New Zealand in 2003 entitled Through the Whirlwind. Rhonda's evocative words, erupting out of the context of her narrated materiality, illustrate powerfully something of the implications of the hegemony of normalcy of being trapped within the framing of normality. It is here more likely than not that a reading of this focal text can be further and creatively explored by both feminist, queer and disability theologies to establish points of intersection. It is in Western culture, Betcher further states, where disability names the abject refusal of industrial capitalism, which has now become aesthetic, consumer capitalism.