ABSTRACT
Disability is an unstable category, and the terrains and atmospheres that convey disablement are mutable. This chapter discusses some observations of the challenges and opportunities for critical disability learning for life that is mediated by new forms of online and offline social networking. Configurations of online and physical spaces have the potential to make publicly visible both shared and particular disability experiences which until have generally been circumscribed within domestic and intimate discourse. Critical understanding of disability is therefore an always emerging practice of conscious care of the self and for others. An important project of disability pedagogy is to foster critical understanding of romantic relationships as well as creative and strategic responses. Critical disability education that attends to the unsettling of social norms can better embrace the dual objectives of ensuring broad access/inclusion in widely shared public forums, and creatively implementing spaces or configurations of communication attuned to diverse particular experiences and relationships.
