On this first full episode of Disorderly Voices, hosts Patrick Campbell and Maria Stuart are joined by Josh St. Pierre to discuss his article “The Construction of the Disabled Speaker: Locating Stuttering in Disability Studies.” In this work Josh traces the origins of speech norms and how they are embedded within economic and social structures. Josh, Patrick, and Maria discuss his work within the broader context of disability studies, the relation between stammering and forms of oppression and what it means to develop solidarity among stammerers as a political community.

Links:

• The Construction of the Disabled Speaker (Open Access)
• Living Archives on Eugenics in Western Canada
• Tanya Titchkosky, Disability, Self, and Society (2006)
• AJ Withers, Disability Politics and Theory (2024)
• Patrick Campbell, Christopher Constantino, Sam Simpson (Eds), Stammering Pride and Prejudice (2019)
• Alison Kafer, Feminist, Queer, Crip (2013)
• Did I Stutter?
• JJJJJerome Ellis
• Joshua St. Pierre, Cheap Talk: Disability and the Politics of Communication (2022)

Joshua St. Pierre is a Canada Research Chair in Critical Disability Studies and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta. Josh leads the Stuttering Commons project, a cross-disciplinary and trans-national collective that seeks to establish dysfluency studies as a recognized and accessible field of knowledge.