„Moje ręce”. Doświadczenie niepełnosprawności w autonarracjach Cheryl Mary Wade
„My Hands”. The Disability Experience in the Auto-Narratives of Cheryl Marie Wade

Summary/Abstract: Cheryl Marie Wade was a poet, performer and activist for the rights of people with disabilities. Her poetic work, which had its performative dimension, as Wade presented her works as part of stage performances, in a direct relationship with viewers, intertwined with her activism: Wade often took up the topic of her own disability, confronting audiences with it and overcoming numerous stereotypes about it. In this text, I juxtapose the work of Cheryl Marie Wade and the vision of disability emerging from this work with an extended interview included in the archive of oral history of disability. I treat both these forms as specific auto-narratives that capture the experience of disability in different terms – poetic and autobiographical. I also ask about the role of the voice in these auto-narratives.

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