stranger than fiction: that lying, conniving, disabled snitch … burn, burn, burn the witch!
Bonsall, A. Pickard-Smith, K. Spaeth, E. Alexis-Martin, Becky Leigh, J. Ghosts
Bonsall, A.
Pickard-Smith, K.
Spaeth, E.
Alexis-Martin, Becky
Leigh, J.
Ghosts
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All authors of this work are disabled scholars with varying experiences of learning disability, long-term illness, and chronic health conditions. All authors are neurodivergent. Three are currently unemployed, underemployed, and/or precariously employed. Two are from marginalised ethnic/racial groups. Two are the first in their generation to access higher education. Three have known severe poverty. Not all involved could be named on this publication, hence the inclusion of ghosts.
The lived experience of the authors is woven into a singular cautionary tale to provide an every-person understanding of career blocking within academia for disabled scholars. This artistic endeavour, inherently analytical in its documentation of the ‘identity work’ of our authors, draws on past experience (memory) weaved through imagination. The writing and publishing of this piece required a brutal honesty that lays us open, vulnerable and at risk. However, as you will read, the risk of silence could be greater still.
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Bonsall A, Pickard-Smith K, Spaeth E et al (2024) stranger than fiction: that lying, conniving, disabled snitch … burn, burn, burn the witch! Feminist Review. 137(1): 44-52.
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