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From a very young age we are told not to stare, and one hallmark of maturation is the ability to resist (or at least hide) our staring behavior. And yet, rarely do we master the impulse. Despite the complicated role it plays in our development, and its unique brand of visual enticement, staring has not been considered before as a suitable object for socio-cultural analysis. What is it about certain kinds of people that makes it impossible to take our eyes off them? Why are some visual stimuli irresistible? Why does staring produce so much anxiety? Drawing on examples from art, media, fashion

This article offers the critical conceptmisfitin an effort to further think through the lived identity and experience of disability as it is situated in place and time. The idea of a misfit and the situation of misfitting that I offer here elaborate a materialist feminist understanding of disability by extending a consideration of how the particularities of embodiment interact with the environment in its broadest sense, to include both its spatial and temporal aspects. The interrelated dynamics of fitting and misfitting constitute a particular aspect of world-making involved in material-discursive becoming. The essay makes three arguments: the concept of misfit emphasizes the particularity of varying lived embodiments and avoids a theoretical generic disabled body; the concept of misfit clarifies the current feminist critical conversation about universal vulnerability and dependence; the concept of misfitting as a shifting spatial and perpetually temporal relationship confers agency and value on disabled subjects.

Becoming disabled / Rosemarie Garland-Thomson -- The Nazis' first victims were the disabled / Kenny Fries -- Mental illness is not a horror show / Andrew Solomon -- Disability and the right to choose / Jennifer Bartlett -- If you're in a wheelchair, segregation lives / Luticha Doucette -- My Medicaid, my life / Alice Wong -- You are special! Now stop being different / Jonathan Mooney -- Brain injury and the civil right we don't think about / Joseph J. Fins -- I don't want to be "inspiring" / John Altmann -- The deaf body in public space / Rachel Kolb -- My "orphan disease" has given me a new family / Rosemarie Garland-Thomson -- My life with Tourette's / Shane Fistell -- The everyday anxiety of the stutterer / Joseph P. Carter -- How to really see a blind person / Brad Snyder -- The importance of facial equality / Ariel Henle -- Finding refuge with the skin I'm in / Anne Kaier -- What it means to heal / Cyndi Jones -- I use a wheelchair. And yes, I'm your doctor / Cheri A. Blauwet -- Standing up for what I need / Carol R. Steinberg -- Where all bodies are exquisite / Riva Lehrer -- I lost my voice, but help others find theirs / Alex Hubbard -- The "madman" is back in the building / Zack McDermott -- Hildegard's visions, and mine / Jenny Giering -- Finding myself on the page / Ona Gritz -- Should I tell my students I have depression? / Abby L. Wilkerson -- We are the original lifehackers / Liz Jackson -- My supercharged, tricked out, Bluetooth wheelchair life force / Katie Savin -- New York has a great subway, if you're not in a wheelchair / Sasha Blair-Goldensohn -- A symbol for "nobody" that's really for everybody / Elizabeth Guffey -- Feeling my way into blindness / Edward Hoagland -- The dawn of the "tryborg" / Jillian Weise -- Flying while blind / Georgina Kleege -- My life with paralysis, it's a workout / Valerie Piro -- My $1,000 anxiety attack / Joanna Novak -- When life gave me lemons, I had a panic attack / Gila Lyons -- Am I too embarrassed to save my life? / Jane Eaton Hamilton -- My Paralympic blues / Emily Rapp Black -- The athlete in me won't stop / Todd Balf -- The hawk can soar / Randi Davenport -- A girlfriend of my own / Daniel Simpson -- Love, eventually / Ona Gritz -- How to play the online dating game, in a wheelchair / Emily Ladau -- Explaining our bodies, finding ourselves / Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison -- Longing for the male gaze / Jennifer Bartlett -- Intimacy without touch / Elizabeth Jameson and Catherine Monahon -- The three-legged dog who carried me / Laurie Clements Lambeth -- Passing my disability on to my children / Sheila Black -- I have diabetes. Am I to blame? / Rivers Solomon -- 10 things my chronic illness taught my children / Paula M. Fitzgibbons -- The importance of finding family / Alaina Leary -- Trying to embrace a "cure" / Sheila Black -- In my mother's eyes, and mine / Catherine Kudlick -- A portrait of intimate violence / Anne Finger -- Mishearings / Oliver Sacks -- Space travel : a vision / Daniel Simpson -- Learning to sing again / Anne Kaier -- Sensations of sound : on deafness and music / Rachel Kolb -- Invitation to the dance / Alice Sheppard -- Stories about disability don't have to be sad / Melissa Shang -- In my chronic illness, I found a deeper meaning / Elliot Kukla -- A disabled life is a life worth living / Ben Mattlin.

Introduction / Mike Kent, Katie Ellis, Rachel Robertson and Rosemarie Garland Thomson -- Human variation across family and community life -- Critical disability studies : a knowledge manifesto / Rosemarie Garland Thomson -- Dear neurodiversity movement : put your shoes on / Sonya Freeman Loftis -- Not now but right now : creating advocates and scholars / Washieka Torres -- Bringing maternal studies into critical disability studies / Rachel Robertson and Christina Fernandes -- Navigating "the system" to find supports and services for people with developmental disability : how can research help make this a better journey? / Rachel Skoss -- Disabling militarism : theorizing anti-militarism, dis/ability, and dis/placement / Mark Anthony Castrodale -- Media, technology and design -- Technology & cultural futures / Gerard Goggin -- A media manefisto / Katie Ellis -- Finding the highest common ground : accessibility and the changing global reach and regulation of digital media / Mike Kent -- Interface casting : making the physical, digital / Justin Brown and Scott Hollier -- A web for all : a manifesto for critical disability studies in accessibility and user experience design / Sarah Lewthwaite, David Sloan and Sarah Horton -- Architectural sites of discrimination : positive to negative / Dianne Smith -- A dishuman manifesto, by projectdishuman / Kirsty Liddiard, Katherine Runswick-Cole, Rebecca Lawthom, Dan Goodley -- A super normal design manifesto for disability studies / Graham Pullin -- Theoretical work -- Engaging with aging : the greying of critical disability studies / Hailee M. Gibbons -- "Low level agency" : disability, oppression and alternative genres of the human / David T. Mitchel and Sharon L. Snyder -- Revisiting the foundations of (critical) disability studies : a social model manifesto / Kathy Boxall -- Severing theoretical work from political work in disability studies / James Berger -- Disciplining disability : intersections between critical disability studies and cultural studies / Leanne McCrae -- Cultivating and expanding discrit (disability critical race theory) / Subini Annamm, David J. Connor and Beth A. Ferri -- Critical disability praxis / Akemi Nishida -- Glossary -- Index.

This collection identifies the key tensions and conflicts being debated within the field of critical disability studies and provides both an outline of the field in its current form and offers manifestos for its future direction. Traversing a number of disciplines from science and technology studies to maternal studies, the collection offers a transdisciplinary vision for the future of critical disability studies. Some common thematic concerns emerge across the book such as digital futures, the usefulness of anger, creativity, family as disability allies, intersectionality, ethics, eugenics, accessibility and interdisciplinarity. However, the contributors who write as either disabled people or allies do not proceed from a singular approach to disability, often reflecting different or even opposing positions on these issues. Containing contributions from established and new voices in disability studies outlining their own manifesto for the future of the field, this book will be of interest to all scholars and students working within the fields of disability studies, cultural studies, sociology, law, history and education. The concerns introduced here are further explored in its sister volume Interdisciplinary approaches to disability: looking towards the future.