Disability Art and Re-Worlding Possibilities

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Notes

1. Kanaka ʻŌiwi Hawaiʻi scholar Aikau writes, “Indigenous resurgence is about restoring and fortifying those connections while seeking to restore Indigenous responsibilities and respect for one another, land, and culture through everyday acts of resurgence” (656). Aikau continues, “Indigenous resurgence focuses on those things that restore a sense of individual and communal responsibility for our language, histories, territories, ceremonial cycles and intellectual practices” (656).

2. Papalia, who might typically be recognized as blind, identifies as a “non-visual learner.” Papalia writes, “Stumbling upon the term nonvisual learner allowed me to recognize the value in my process of gathering a sense of place and was the catalyst for a body of work that realizes disability experience as a liberatory space” (347).

3. Otherwise known as a guide cane or an identifier cane.

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Funding

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada [895-2016-1024].