Citations:ablesplaining

English citations of ablesplaining

Noun: "the act of a nondisabled person condescendingly explaining disability..."

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• 2016, Jay Dolmage & Dale Jacobs, "Mutable Articulations: Disability Rhetorics and the Comics Medium", in Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives (eds. C. Foss, J. Gray, & Zach Whalen), page 26:

  In fact, ablesplaining also encapsulates the fact that most people with disabilities are not seen as authorities about their own minds and bodies.

• 2018, Patricia A. Dunn & Angela Broderick, "What Does The Glass Menagerie and Its Discussion Questions Teach About Disability? And How to Undo It", in Critical Approaches to Teaching the High School Novel: Reinterpreting Canonical Literature (eds. Crag Hill & Victor Malo-Juvera), page 141:

  Jim's presumptive mansplaining (and ablesplaining) is insulting to Laura from both a disability studies and a feminist standpoint.

• 2018, Chun-Shan (Sandie) Yi, "Res(crip)ting Art Therapy: Disability Culture as a Social Justice Intervention", in Art Therapy for Social Justice: Radical Intersections (ed. Savneet K. Talwar), unnumbered page:

  A few of them offered to connect me with their therapists and told me how they had already “groomed” them with “disability 101,” so I would not have to deal with ablesplaining.

• 2020, Bree Hadley, "Allyship in disability arts: roles, relationships, and practices", Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, Volume 25, Issue 2 (2020), page 181:

  In a disability arts context, suspected pseudo-allies of this sort are a key driver of a common desire to discuss certain issues solely in ‘disability only’ sessions or contexts, to avoid the ‘ablesplaining’ or ‘able-bodied backlash’ that many disabled artists find traumatic.