4Disability Studies

Abstract

Abstract This review of disability studies literature published in 2022 examines the field’s current investment in points of departure from ableist and neurotypical access to communication, work, and care. Such topics have been central to practices and theoretical concepts within disability justice movements, the neurodiversity movement, and the space of disability studies scholarship for at least the past fifteen years. While the literature surveyed in this review builds on that corpus, it is also imbued, whether explicitly or implicitly, with the continuing effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, the rhetorical impacts of the 2020 US presidential election and the responses or lack thereof to the longstanding accessibility needs of disabled and neurodivergent populations illuminated through global lockdowns. The review considers Akemi Nishida’s Just Care: Messy Entanglements of Disability, Dependency and Desire, Joshua St. Pierre’s Cheap Talk: Disability and the Politics of Communication, and the spring 2022 special issue on ‘Sex Work and Disability’ from Disability Studies Quarterly.