WisCon programming: Idea Generation Post

WisCon programming submission closes on January 28th! This post is for idea generation and creating more ideas for WisCon programming.

Here is the FAQ page for programming at WisCon.

What do you want to learn about? What do you want to talk about? What's exciting to you this year?

Please comment and converse in this post, and feel free to link to it!

Live blogging a book

I am reading Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability by Robert McRuer, which is an academic text. Therefore, a bit dense, and I don't have the academic background for it (I am a scientist), but I love it.

I am on page 23 and he just excoriated the film As Good as it Gets. I heart you, Robert McRuer. He took a few shots at Titanic as well.

He's talked about the invisibility of heterosexuality and able-bodiedness, and both of those have been defined by their opposites. Thus, compulsory heterosexuality is analogous to compulsory able-bodiedness. He's making an argument that queer theory and disability theory are intertwined areas of study, are informed by and need each other.

There is lots more of this to come.

ETA: If you know of blog posts that examine queerness and disability, especially things that are good for 101-level and for undergraduates, please recommend them to me!