Walking to the train station with Amal: dis/ability and in/visibility

This article reflects on an encounter following a life-history interview with a participant, Amal, who was part of my doctoral research. The article documents and theorises a relatively ordinary and mundane event – walking. Her disabled body and my queer body were stared at intensely as we walked, and this encounter forced me to reflect on the ethics and politics of dis/ability and in/visibility. I take Garland-Thomson’s point that being stared...