Bodies in E-Lit

What a body can do: Rethinking body functionality through a feminist materialist disability lens

“…Arts-based interventions such as photovoice, digital storytelling, and videomaking might also invite participants to capture the ambiguity and complexity of their embodied experiences (Rice et al, 2018;Rice, Pendleton Jimenez, et al, 2020;Friedman et al, 2020). One example is a project that engaged a diverse group of young women and gender non-conforming people to develop and test an online storytelling application that seeks to widen repertoires for thinking about body image (Ensslin et al, 2020). To meet the objective of widening repertoires for thinking about body image, diversely-embodied researchers in this study introduced diversely-embodied participants to difference-affirming frameworks and planned for accessibility prior to co-developing the on-line intervention with the participant group.…”