Bibliography & Further Reading
This bibliography is part of the exhibition Reframing, Refocusing, Reimagining Disability and highlights the rich and growing list of resources related to disability studies theory, materiality, and disability justice. Many of these sources have informed the discussion and interpretation of our artifacts, as well as our general approach to creating this exhibition. Organized thematically, this bibliography starts with works on broader disability theory and materiality before narrowing down to museum accessibility and scholarship examining disability materiality in the eighteenth through twentieth centuries. Some of these resources are behind a paywall, but may be accessible through your local public library.
Disability Theory and Materiality
Hamraie, Aimi, and Kelly Fritsch. “Crip Technoscience Manifesto.” Edited by Chosson Etienne, Lucas Fritz, and Lucie Camous. Catalyst 5, no. 1 (2019): 1–33. https://doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v5i1.29607.
Kafer, Alison. “Time for Disability Studies and a Future for Crips.” In Feminist, Queer, Crip, 25–46. Indiana University Press, 2013. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt16gz79x.6.
Kim, Jina B. 2024. “The (Crip) Revolution Begins At Home.” GLQ 30 (4): 531–35. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-11331090.
Jackson, Liz. “Disability Dongle.” Platypus, April 19, 2022. https://blog.castac.org/2022/04/disability-dongle/.
Ott, Katherine. “Disability Things: Material Culture and American Disability History, 1700–2010.” In Disability Histories, edited by Susan Burch and Michael Rembis, 119–35. University of Illinois Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctt6wr5rt.11.
Samuels, Ellen. 2017. “Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time.” Disability Studies Quarterly 37 (3). https://dsq-sds.org/article/id/1565/.
Museums and Access
Brilmyer, Gracen. “They Weren't Necessarily Designed with Lived Experiences of Disability in Mind: The Affect of Archival In/Accessibility and "Emotionally Expensive" Spatial Un/Belonging.” Archivaria 94 (2022): 120-153. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/873262.
Cachia, Amanda. “Disability, Curating, and the Educational Turn: The Contemporary Condition of Access in the Museum.” On Curating, no. 24 (December 2014). https://www.on-curating.org/issue-24-reader/disability-curating-and-the-educational-turn-the-contemporary-condition-of-access-in-the-museum.html.
Candlin, Fiona. “Don’t Touch! Hands Off! Art, Blindness and the Conservation of Expertise,” Body & Society (2004): 71-90.
Coklyat, Bojana and Shannon Finnegan. “Alt Text as Poetry Project.” In Amanda Cachia ed., Curating Access : Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation, London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.
Godin, M. Leona “Image Description and the Critical Blind Gaze,” NYPL Lecture (2024).
https://drmlgodin.com/2024/06/image-description-and-the-critical-blind-gaze-nypl-public-lecture
Kleege, Georgina, and Scott Wallin. “Audio Description as a Pedagogical Tool.” Disability Studies Quarterly 35, no. 2 (2015): 2. https://dsq-sds.org/article/id/460/.
Maunder, Patricia. “Awakening Our Sense of Touch.” In The Museum as Experience, edited by Susan Shifrin, 65–76. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781802701470-009.
Mingus, Mia. 2011. “Access Intimacy: The Missing Link.” Leaving Evidence, May 5. https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/access-intimacy-the-missing-link/.
Disability Justice
10 Principles of Disability Justice | Sins Invalid. n.d. Accessed September 17, 2025. https://sinsinvalid.org/10-principles-of-disability-justice/.
Schalk, Sami. “We Have a Right to Rebel: Black Disability Politics in the Black Panther Party,” in Black Disability Politics (2022), 23-47.
Eighteenth- through Twentieth-century Disability Studies and Materiality
Belolan, Nicole. 2024. “Disability History.” The Inclusive Historian’s Handbook, January 3. https://inclusivehistorian.com/disability-history/.
Davis, Lennard J. Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body. New York: Verso, 1995.
Hunt-Kennedy, Stefanie. “‘Had it not been for her:’ Gender, Care Labour and Disability in the British Caribbean, 1788-1834,” Gender & History (2023), 561-575.
Daen, Laurel. 2017. “Martha Ann Honeywell: Art, Performance, and Disability in the Early Republic.” Journal of the Early Republic 37 (2): 225–50. https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2017.0019.
Gabbard, Dwight Christopher. “Disability Studies and the British Long Eighteenth Century.” Literature Compass 8, no. 2 (2011): 80–94. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-4113.2010.00771.x.
Guffey, Elizabeth. “Cripping Things in Late Nineteenth-Century Art,” Youtube, Bard Events, April 2023 https://www.bgc.bard.edu/events/1438/25-apr-2023-cripping-things
Nassif, Kristen. “Blinding Sight: Vision and Spectacles in John Haberle’s Trompe l’Oeil Paintings,” The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability (2022), 297-316
Turner, David M. Disability in Eighteenth-Century England: Imagining Physical Impairment. New York: Routledge, 2012.
Van Horn, Jennifer and Natalie Wright, “Disability and Creativity: David Drake’s Vessels and The Art of Collaborative Craft,” Panorama (2025). https://journalpanorama.org/article/disability-and-creativity/
Virdi, Jaipreet. 2024. “Deaf Futurity: Designing and Innovating Hearing Aids.” Medical Humanities 50 (4): 678–84. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2024-013011.
Compiled by Sydney Collins, Julia Rinaudo, Lauren Teresi
Bibliography & Further Reading
This bibliography is part of the exhibition Reframing, Refocusing, Reimagining Disability and highlights the rich and growing list of resources related to disability studies theory, materiality, and disability justice. Many of these sources have informed the discussion and interpretation of our artifacts, as well as our general approach to creating this exhibition. Organized thematically, this bibliography starts with works on broader disability theory and materiality before narrowing down to museum accessibility and scholarship examining disability materiality in the eighteenth through twentieth centuries. Some of these resources are behind a paywall, but may be accessible through your local public library.
Disability Theory and Materiality
Hamraie, Aimi, and Kelly Fritsch. “Crip Technoscience Manifesto.” Edited by Chosson Etienne, Lucas Fritz, and Lucie Camous. Catalyst 5, no. 1 (2019): 1–33. https://doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v5i1.29607.
Kafer, Alison. “Time for Disability Studies and a Future for Crips.” In Feminist, Queer, Crip, 25–46. Indiana University Press, 2013. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt16gz79x.6.
Kim, Jina B. 2024. “The (Crip) Revolution Begins At Home.” GLQ 30 (4): 531–35. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-11331090.
Jackson, Liz. “Disability Dongle.” Platypus, April 19, 2022. https://blog.castac.org/2022/04/disability-dongle/.
Ott, Katherine. “Disability Things: Material Culture and American Disability History, 1700–2010.” In Disability Histories, edited by Susan Burch and Michael Rembis, 119–35. University of Illinois Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctt6wr5rt.11.
Samuels, Ellen. 2017. “Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time.” Disability Studies Quarterly 37 (3). https://dsq-sds.org/article/id/1565/.
Museums and Access
Brilmyer, Gracen. “They Weren't Necessarily Designed with Lived Experiences of Disability in Mind: The Affect of Archival In/Accessibility and "Emotionally Expensive" Spatial Un/Belonging.” Archivaria 94 (2022): 120-153. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/873262.
Cachia, Amanda. “Disability, Curating, and the Educational Turn: The Contemporary Condition of Access in the Museum.” On Curating, no. 24 (December 2014). https://www.on-curating.org/issue-24-reader/disability-curating-and-the-educational-turn-the-contemporary-condition-of-access-in-the-museum.html.
Candlin, Fiona. “Don’t Touch! Hands Off! Art, Blindness and the Conservation of Expertise,” Body & Society (2004): 71-90.
Coklyat, Bojana and Shannon Finnegan. “Alt Text as Poetry Project.” In Amanda Cachia ed., Curating Access : Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation, London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.
Godin, M. Leona “Image Description and the Critical Blind Gaze,” NYPL Lecture (2024).
https://drmlgodin.com/2024/06/image-description-and-the-critical-blind-gaze-nypl-public-lecture
Kleege, Georgina, and Scott Wallin. “Audio Description as a Pedagogical Tool.” Disability Studies Quarterly 35, no. 2 (2015): 2. https://dsq-sds.org/article/id/460/.
Maunder, Patricia. “Awakening Our Sense of Touch.” In The Museum as Experience, edited by Susan Shifrin, 65–76. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781802701470-009.
Mingus, Mia. 2011. “Access Intimacy: The Missing Link.” Leaving Evidence, May 5. https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/access-intimacy-the-missing-link/.
Disability Justice
10 Principles of Disability Justice | Sins Invalid. n.d. Accessed September 17, 2025. https://sinsinvalid.org/10-principles-of-disability-justice/.
Schalk, Sami. “We Have a Right to Rebel: Black Disability Politics in the Black Panther Party,” in Black Disability Politics (2022), 23-47.
Eighteenth- through Twentieth-century Disability Studies and Materiality
Belolan, Nicole. 2024. “Disability History.” The Inclusive Historian’s Handbook, January 3. https://inclusivehistorian.com/disability-history/.
Davis, Lennard J. Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body. New York: Verso, 1995.
Hunt-Kennedy, Stefanie. “‘Had it not been for her:’ Gender, Care Labour and Disability in the British Caribbean, 1788-1834,” Gender & History (2023), 561-575.
Daen, Laurel. 2017. “Martha Ann Honeywell: Art, Performance, and Disability in the Early Republic.” Journal of the Early Republic 37 (2): 225–50. https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2017.0019.
Gabbard, Dwight Christopher. “Disability Studies and the British Long Eighteenth Century.” Literature Compass 8, no. 2 (2011): 80–94. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-4113.2010.00771.x.
Guffey, Elizabeth. “Cripping Things in Late Nineteenth-Century Art,” Youtube, Bard Events, April 2023 https://www.bgc.bard.edu/events/1438/25-apr-2023-cripping-things
Nassif, Kristen. “Blinding Sight: Vision and Spectacles in John Haberle’s Trompe l’Oeil Paintings,” The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability (2022), 297-316
Turner, David M. Disability in Eighteenth-Century England: Imagining Physical Impairment. New York: Routledge, 2012.
Van Horn, Jennifer and Natalie Wright, “Disability and Creativity: David Drake’s Vessels and The Art of Collaborative Craft,” Panorama (2025). https://journalpanorama.org/article/disability-and-creativity/
Virdi, Jaipreet. 2024. “Deaf Futurity: Designing and Innovating Hearing Aids.” Medical Humanities 50 (4): 678–84. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2024-013011.
Compiled by Sydney Collins, Julia Rinaudo, Lauren Teresi