Creative works are back! We are excited to take this next step in the restoration of DSQ and it comes at a time when there seems an especially great need for more art and beauty in the world. Creative works have long been a part of DSQ and are part of what makes this journal and the field of disability studies unique. Our field includes a wide range of voices and reaches a wide audience. Much credit goes to Orchid Tierney, who generously agreed to edit and curate the creative works for us.
This issue features four articles that demonstrate some of the range of disability studies scholarship today. Using Ontario as a case study, Natalie Spagnuolo, Josée Boulanger, and Helen Ries examine the "coerced relations of care" people with intellectual disabilities endure as a result of austerity reform. Their article examines the system of unpaid care work for people with intellectual disabilities, focusing on the role of siblings. Instead of prioritizing choice, Ontario's services rely on family relations and gendered forms of unpaid labor, resulting in a lack of choice and coerced relations of care. The article highlights the need for a rights-based approach to developmental disability services.
Janelle Capwell Giles then brings us an autoethnographic study of the intimacy of access service. The essay explores how even the formal and seemingly impersonal access structure of CART captioning offers surprisingly intimate relationship possibilities. It uses CART to show some of the surprising and unintended benefits that access services create.
Our next article identifies a surprising historical location that anticipated modern treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder: Early Modern Protestant devotion. While negotiating his own experience with and treatment of OCD, author Tommy Pfannkoch encountered John Bunyan's devotional writings from seventeenth-century England, leading him to explore the parallels of disability experiences and therapeutic approaches in disparate historical contexts.
Dilshan Fernando then leads us into a study of remote work arrangements for disabled youth living in rural parts of the developing world. While many in the West covet digital sector jobs in part because of the accessibility they offer, in the developing world the benefits of disability inclusion have been coupled with exploitative labor practices. Fernando's article explores these twin phenomena of inclusion and exploitation facing young disabled technology workers in rural areas of the developing world.
We end the issue with two creative works. Krista Westendorp's essay, "Making Music," carries us through the politics of care within and without medicalized and therapeutic terrains. It evokes the Care Collective's Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence that speculates on a notion of "promiscuous care" whereby resourced support is mobilized across simultaneous forms of kinship and communities. For Westerndorp, music—and the means to make music—is part of this extended vocabulary of care and belonging.
Like Westerndorp's narrative, Maria Guarino's video essay, "Body Tricks," engages with its own extended vocabulary of discomfort. It intervenes in the gendered and medicalized gaze aimed at disabled bodies. Both "Making Music" and "Body Tricks" speak to the productions of relationality and "making sense of different embodiments."
Finally, it will soon be two years since restarting the journal and we want to thank our many peer reviewers. The constructive reviews you write sustain the journal and nurture the development of disability studies scholars. They benefit from your reviews even when we do not publish their articles. In a field that is less institutionalized than many others, DSQ plays an outsized nurturing role. For those who are willing to write reviews, please register at this link, check the box indicating you are willing to review articles, and add keywords that identify your areas of expertise: https://dsq-sds.org/index.php/dsq/user/register?source. Here is a list of those who have submitted peer reviews over the past two years:
Karwan Abdalrahman
Susan Antebi
Mikaila Mariel Lemonik
Arthur
Olivia Banner
Alexandre Baril
Sharon
Barnartt
Jakob Benecke
Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist
Arthur W. Blaser
Liz Bowen
Lisa Butler
Andrew
Campana
Amanda Michelle Carter
Sarah L. Cavar
Evan
Chaloupka
Nadine Changfoot
Emily Coombs
Sony Coranez
Bolton
Danielle Danielle Pafunda
Sheelagh
Daniels-Mayes
Michael Davidson
Scott Dexter
Janette
Dinishak
Emily R. Douglas
Laura Eisenman
Julie
Passanante Elman
Rosiel Jasper Diana Elwyn
Jose Miguel
Esteban
Zoe DuPree Fine
Brady James Forrest
Ann M.
Fox
Erich Fox Tree
Benjamin Fraser
Kelly Fritsch
Dwight Christopher Gabbard
Angélica
Gutiérrez-González
Esther Akua Gyamfi
Beth
Haller
Kristen Harmon
Cassandra Hartblay
Anelise
Haukaas
Devon Healey
Stephanie Heit
Christopher
Heuer
Wendy Hillman
Ai Binh T. Ho
Victoria Houser
Neera R. Jain
Lisa Johnson
Matthew S. Johnston
Sara P.
Johnston
Joseph P. Jordan
Eunyoung Jung
Julia Rose
Karpicz
Krista Kennedy
John Matthew Kinder
Bill
Kirkpatrick
Susanne Knittel
Felicia Kornbluh
Meaghan
Krazinski
Emily Krebs
Travis Chi Wing Lau
Carlos
Lavin
Jung Soo Lee
Caroline Lieffers
Rebecca Eli
Long
Mary Lutze
Iain Macpherson
Mahalli Mahalli
Christine Marie Manno
Phillip Martinez Cortes
Michael
McCarthy
Ariella Meltzer
Amanda L. Miller
David Thomas
Mitchell
Chiara Montalti
Sarah Nance
Geneveive
Newman
Michael Northen
Alessandra Occhiolini
Lee
Okan
Jiya Pandya
Leah Pope Parker
Lindsey
Patterson
Lisa Pfahl
John Pirone
Philip S. Poe
Carol Poore
Jeff Preston
Margaret Price
Margaret M
Quinlan
Rayna Rapp Michael Rembis
Geoffrey Reaume
Heidi Andrea Rhodes
Natalia M. Rivera Morales
Octavian Robinson
Carol Rogers-Shaw
Nadeen Ruiz
Morgan
V Sanchez
Ralph James Savarese
Richard K. Scotch
Siobhan Senier
David H. Serlin
Laura Seymour
D'Andra
Shu
Joel Peter Simundich
J. Logan Smilges
Joshua St.
Pierre
Hayley C Stefan
Matthew Stigler
Lauren Rose
Strand
Tonya Stremlau
Olga Tchepikova-Treon
Anastasia
Todd
Jack Trammell
Kirk VanGilder
Sara Vogt
Jijian Voronka
Jennifer Jensen Wallach
Muffy Walter
Cathy Webb
The Cyborg Jillian Weise
Jess Whatcott
Nate
Whelan-Jackson
Jan D Wilson
Matthew Wolf-Meyer
Cynthia
Wu
Deanna Parvin Yadollahi
Linda Yau
Kuansong Victor
Zhuang