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Emma Bigé et al., « “Dévalider” », Multitudes, ID : 10670/1.538cde...
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The French neologism dévalider is formed from the radical “valide” (understood as: validated by ableism) to which is added the privative prefix “dé-” (understood as: to undo, deconstruct, destroy). It takes up and translates the English disabled, which is usually translated as “personne handicapée”. Alongside this ordinary meaning, dévalider has been taken up by disability struggles to signify two contradictory but complementary aspects. On the one hand, disabled are the worlds prepared by the anti-ableist struggle, i.e. a society without ableism (“disabled” in the sense that it is no longer related to the ableist norm). On the other hand, disabled designate the worlds prepared by extractive capitalism, i.e. worlds where no-one can be said to be able-bodied (“disabled” in the sense that everyone, albeit to different degrees, finds their abilities displaced, for example due to the toxicity of the atmosphere). Disability Justice movements stand at the point of tension between, on the one hand, a struggle for liberating disability (from the ableist norms that makes disability unlivable) and, on the other, a struggle against forced disablement (by the extractive capitalist world that exploits the debilitation of lives). This text serves as an introduction to the special issue “Disability Justice”, which brings together academic, activist and poetic writings written from and with the anti-ableist struggles.
