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The Great Unravelling

From: Disfigured

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Chapter 9 explores the future of how disability will be in the present and near future, discussing topics like fairy tales and the ideology of able bodiedness, the political, social, economic realities for disabled person, the military metaphor of illness, and how people with disabilities can find fulfilment in the future and a voice for their own experiences.

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Amanda Leduc

Amanda Leduc’s essays and stories have appeared in publications across Canada, the US, and the UK. She is the author of the novels The Miracles of Ordinary Men and the forthcoming The Centaur’s Wife. She has cerebral palsy and lives in Hamilton, Ontario, where she works as the Communications Coordinator for the Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD), Canada’s first festival for diverse authors and stories.