Tournament: Newark | Round: 1 | Opponent: Scarsdale SB | Judge: Joe Sahlman
The Aff talks about the importance of free speech for student activism on campuses, but that reaffirms the notion that real protest can only happen through speech in the Public Sphere, which inherently renders the people who actually need the help voiceless and irrelevant.
Hedva 1 Johanna, “Sick Woman Theory,” Mask Magazine, The Not Again Issue, Jan 2016. MR
If we take ... as political activists.”
Not only are these bodies doomed apolitical, they are made completely invisible, leading to internalized oppression that says they can only be “worthy” if they are “fixed.”
Hedva 2 Johanna, “Sick Woman Theory,” Mask Magazine, The Not Again Issue MR
Sick Woman Theory ... needs the fixing.
The alternative is to shift from a Public Sphere notion of activism and recognize and empower invisible activism.
Hedva 3 Johanna, “Sick Woman Theory,” Mask Magazine, The Not Again Issue MR
Sick Woman Theory ... and politically invisible.
The role of the ballot is to endorse the debater who best performatively and methodologically addresses the needs of and incorporates the voices of invisible bodies.
Ableist norms are embodied in our epistemic thought processes – the debate space is key to breaking through them. Beckett 13:
Serious and systemic ... of that difference.
And my narrative-based method is a prerequisite to theirs since the narratives allow the oppressed to tell their experiences, which is key to any discussion of power relations. Reinsborough and Canning:
In Sum All ... fairer, freer world.