Abstract
The article offers a crip reading of “hegemony” to shift attention away from ideology to the material site of disability politics. Related yet distinct from normalcy, “fluency” is a technology of optimization and closure that operates upon semiotic bodies at the intersection of biopolitics and hegemony. Only by inscribing social order in our bodies and smoothing over the site of politics can compulsory able-bodiedness manifest as a stable, seamless, and natural field—everywhere and nowhere at once. The article ends by highlighting the dangers of populist demands for legibility/intelligibility that restrict the possibilities (of access, participation, and belonging) for dysfluent people and instead imagines “dysfluency” as a distinctly material and crip resource against hegemony.
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