Paradoksy widzialności: o związkach teorii queer i studiów o niepełnosprawności
Paradoxes of Visibility: The Relationship between Queer Theory and Disability Studies

Summary/Abstract: The article foregrounds the category of visibility to examine the relation between disabilitystudies and queer theory. The text posits that changing social conditions of visibility iscrucial for non-heteronormative people and people with disabilities. The analysis takesfrom “foundational” books for both disciplines: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Epistemologyof the Closet and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring PhysicalDisability in American Culture and Literature, along with other texts by leading queerand disability studies scholars, such as Lauren Berlant, Tobin Siebers, or Susan Schweik.

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