Passing, coming out, and other magical acts / Ellen Samuels -- A hybridized academic identity: negotiating a disability within academia's discourse of ableism / Shahd Alshammari -- Perceptions of disability on a postsecondary campus: implications for oppression and human love / Eduardo Barragan and Emily A. Nusbaum -- Feminism, disability, and the democratic classroom / Amber Knight -- Rhetorical disclosures: the stakes of disability identity in higher education / Tara Wood -- Bodyminds like ours: an autoethnographic analysis of graduate school, disability, and the politics of disclosure / Angela M. Carter, R. Tina Catania, Sam Schmitt, and Amanda Swenson -- Complicating "coming out": disclosing disability, gender, and sexuality in higher education / Ryan A. Miller, Richmond D. Wynn, and Kristine W. Webb -- Students with disabilities in higher education: welfare, stigma management, and disclosure / Katherine D. Seelman -- "Overcoming" in disability studies, African American culture, HBCUs, and implications for higher education / Wendy S. Harbour, Rosalie Boone, Elaine Bourne Heath, and Sislena G. Ledbetter -- Risking experience: disability, precarity and disclosure / Kate Kaul -- Postmodern madness on campus: narrating and navigating mental difference and disability / Bradley Lewis -- Science fiction, affect, and crip self-invention?or, how Philip K. Dick made me disabled / Josh Lukin -- Satire, scholarship and sanity; or how to make mad professors / Theri A. Pickens -- Diagnosing disability, disease, and disorder online: disclosure, dismay, and student research / Amy Vidali -- Access to higher education mediated by acts of self-disclosure: "it's a hassle" / Moira A. Carroll-Miranda -- Intellectual disability in the university: expanding the conversation about diversity and disclosure / Brian Freedman, Laura T. Eisenman, Meg Grigal, and Debra Hart -- Accommodations and disclosure for faculty members with mental disability / Stephanie L. Kerschbaum, Amber M. O'Shea, Margaret Price, and Mark S. Salzer -- An initial model for accommodation communication between students with disabilities and faculty / Tonette S. Rocco and Joshua C. Collins -- I am different/so are you: creating safe spaces for disability disclosure (a conversation) / Daisy L. Breneman, Susan Ghiaciuc, Valerie L. Schoolcraft, and Keri A. Vandeberg.
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"Disability is not always central to claims about diversity and inclusion in higher education, but should be. This collection reveals the pervasiveness of disability issues and considerations within many higher education populations and settings, from classrooms to physical environments to policy impacts on students, faculty, administrators, and staff. While disclosing one's disability and identifying shared experiences can engender moments of solidarity, the situation is always complicated by the intersecting factors of race and ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class. With disability disclosure as a central point of departure, this collection of essays builds on scholarship that highlights the deeply rhetorical nature of disclosure and embodied movement, emphasizing disability disclosure as a complex calculus in which degrees of perceptibility are dependent on contexts, types of interactions that are unfolding, interlocutors' long- and short-term goals, disabilities, and disability experiences, and many other contingencies"--