“…In this vein, contemporary feminist disability activists including Inckle (2014) engage with the notion of "disabled embodiment": "a dynamic, lived position that intersects mind, body, emotion, social, self and other, and operationalises new and challenging forms of representation and articulation" (p. 389). Both corporeality and embodiment speak to the complex realities of many women living with chronic illness such as RA, whose social and emotional well-being alongside their personal and public selves are routinely shaped by the physicality of their condition (Ahistrand et al, 2012;Dubouloz, Laporte, Hall, Ashe, & Smith, 2004;Plach et al, 2004).…”