Abstract
ABSTRACT Who is an impossible body? An impossible body is the antithesis of the normative subject upon which our everyday lives are premised. An impossible body is hidden from view in popular culture, is maligned in social and economic contexts, is irrelevant to the discussion of policy. This ‘impossibility’ may be rebellious, it may be painful, but it may also offer opportunities for a shift in thinking. In considering which bodies and lives are considered normative and, as the foil, which are seen as different, we may expose the conditions of impossibility, the pitfalls of this precarious terrain, and the opportunities which emerge from the margins. This article aims to use a range of autoethnographic approaches to consider what may be learned by thinking about impossible bodies through the three lenses of ethnicity, embodiment and kinship.
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