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Tess Sheldon reviews of a memoir of disability activism

Reimagining Space and Place

Do you consider yourself to be a disabled person? Yes: ☐ Prefer not to say: ☐ Yes. Because forms like this – and questions like this – always throw me into confusion, and sometimes into complete mind-stoppage. You appear to be asking a closed question, but ‘consider’ is a word I would use to open up a question. Forms are full of such questions, presenting themselves as straightforward logic gates, which on closer inspection turn out to be impossibly multivalent. Rather like everyda...