hello!!! I've been trying to accept for myself the idea of bodymind and was wondering if you had any recommended reading on the subject? this is worded strangely I'm sorry I'm sleepy. thanks!!!
I do! <3 here are some for free online:
Begin with Margaret Price's classic paper which popularized the bodymind as core to critical disability studies, The Bodymind Problem and the Possibilities of Pain.
AND the paper it cites heavily, Rosemarie Garland-Thompson's Misfits: A Materialist Feminist Disability Concept.
I also wrote pretty recently about this in my essay, The Beholding and Beheld!
There's two modern classics, In Defense of De-Persons and Sick Woman Theory, both by the incomparable Johanna Hedva.
J. Logan Smilges (one of my mentors!)'s amazing article Traumasex: A Queercrip Erotic.
I feel like I'm constantly recommending Mel Baggs's oeuvre....because I am. Here's a good blog post of hirs to start with regarding the bodymind interface.
Some books to look at include:
Eli Clare, Exile & Pride and Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling With Cure.
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha: Bodymap and Dirty River.
Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals.
Stacey Waite, Love Poem to Androgyny and The Lake Has No Saint.
Adam Dickinson, Anatomic.
Hope these help get you started!
