Disability Study Terms

Question 1

Placing value on people’s bodies/minds based on societally constructed ideas of normalcy, intelligence and productivity.

Answer 1

Ableism

Question 2

The relationship between the disability bodymind and the
environment.

Answer 2

Access

Question 3

A term used to challenge the idea the body and mind are experienced separately.

Answer 3

Bodymind

Question 4

A term used historically to stigmatize and oppress
disabled people. It has been reclaimed by some people
disabled people.

Answer 4

Crip

Question 5

A theory that blurs or merges queer theory and critical disability studies. It explores how the social pressures and norms around ability intersect with the social pressures and norms around gender/sexuality.

Answer 5

Crip Theory

Question 6

A concept arising from disabled experience
that addresses the ways that disabled/chronically ill
and neurodivergent people experience time (and
space) differently than able-bodyminded folk.

Answer 6

Crip Time

Question 7

The overarching social systems of body and mental norms that includes ability and disability.

Answer 7

(Dis)ability

Question 8

An analytical framework coming from Black feminist thought. It explains that sociopolitical systems of power and inequality overlap or merge to create distinct experiences of oppression (or privilege) for people at the axes of those systems.

Answer 8

Intersectionality

Question 9

The idea that all brains and connected bodyminds are diverse in how they work - no two brains or nervous systems are the same, and all types of thinking should be regarded as naturally occurring variation.

Answer 9

Neurodiversity