ABSTRACT
In this chapter, Erevelles foregrounds how discourses of difference have deployed disability rhetorically as an oppressive prosthetic device (Mitchell & Snyder, 2000) even while envisioning just futures at the intersection of social difference. To do so, the author draws on three contemporary moments in the quest for social justice to demonstrate how disability becomes the central analytic deployed to justify who is or is not a citizen; who can or cannot be separated from the land; and who should or should not be quarantined in U.S. public education. Thus, in conclusion, it is argued that any quest “Toward what justice?” would necessitate an ontological theorization of disability that re-imagines crip futurity at the intersections of race, class, gender, nation, indigeneity, migration, and sexuality.
