Tournament: Emory | Round: 1 | Opponent: Any | Judge: Any
My communication is not seen as valid. St. Pierre St Pierre, Joshua. "Cripping Communication: Speech, Disability, and Exclusion in Liberal Humanist and Posthumanist Discourse." Communication Theory 25.3 (2015): 330-348.

“John Durham Peters…  rational and intelligible.”

Stutterers are treated as interruptible. St. Pierre2 St. Pierre, Joshua. “On Interrupting, Being Interrupted, and Being Interruptible.” Did I Stutter. April 21, 2016. Web.

“People who stutter… and privileged peoples.”

Alt: stuttering rage.

Exclusion forces stutterers to accept oppression and never express rage against it. St. Pierre3 St. Pierre, Joshua pursuing his PhD in philosophy. “Where is the fury in the stuttering community?” Did I Stutter. November 3, 2014. Web.

“I, like many… back our speech.”

ROB: Vote for the best performative and methodological liberatory strategy for disabled bodies.

This is a prerequisite in engagement. Discursive exchange assumes bodies are already included. Boys Boys, Jos. “challenging the 'normal': towards new conceptual frameworks”, http://sowhatisnormal.co.uk.contentcurator.net/challenging

“This shifts the… of that difference.”

Tournament: All SEP-OCT | Round: 1 | Opponent: Any | Judge: Any
Liter, James. "Shifting The Conversation: On The Double Standard". PhilosEcolAnt. N. p., 2013. Web. 7 Sept. 2016.

Fritsch, Kelly. "The Neoliberal Circulation of Affects: Happiness, accessibility and the capacitation of disability as wheelchair." Health, Culture and Society 5.1 (2013): 135.

Keith P. Feldman. "Representing Permanent War: Black Power’s Palestine and the End(s) of Civil Rights."CR: The New Centennial Review 8.2 (2008): 193-231. Project MUSE. Web. 30 Jul. 2015. https://muse.jhu.edu/.

Goldemberg, José. " Nuclear Energy In Developing Countries - American Academy Of Arts and Sciences ". Amacad.org. N. p., 2009. Web. 7 Sept. 2016.

Giroux, Henry. “Lessons from Paulo Freire.” Chronicle of Higher Eduction, 22 October 2010, vol. 57, issue 9.

Nocella, A. "Emergence of disability pedagogy." Journal of Critical Education Policy Studies 6.2 (2008): 77-94.

Said, Edward. "Orientalsim." (1978): n. pag. Penguin Group. Web. 29 July 2015. http://www.odsg.org/Said_Edward(1977)_Orientalism.pdf.

Johnson, Merri, and Robert McRuer. "Cripistemologies: Introduction." Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies 8.2 (2014): 127-148.

Burke, Anthony. “Beyond Security, Ethics and Violence: War Against the Other.” Routledge. February 12, 2007. Print. 

James Der Derian. “The value of Security:Hobbes, Marx,  Nietzsche, Baudrillard.” On Security. Ed Ronnie Lipschultz 1998

Tournament: Any | Round: 1 | Opponent: Any | Judge: Any
First is identity politics: Technology mixed with human subject destroys identity, so traditional identity politics does not work.
Brey, P. (2008). ‘Human Enhancement and Personal Identity’, Ed. Berg Olsen, J., Selinger, E., Riis, S., New Waves in Philosophy of Technology. New Waves in Philosophy Series, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 169-185
One of the...in personal identity.

Identity politics is the struggle to appear the most natural. We can free ourselves from being locked into the liberal human subject.
Bastian, Michelle. "Haraway’s lost cyborg and the possibilities of transversalism." Signs 31.4 (2006): 1027-1049.
Giving up a...structures of inequality.

Second is western epistemology: The AC is based on western epistemology. It’s focus on rationality to find absolute moral truths is based on liberal humanism.
St Pierre, Joshua. "Cripping Communication: Speech, Disability, and Exclusion in Liberal Humanist and Posthumanist Discourse." Communication Theory 25.3 (2015): 330-348.
Liberal humanism is...and political nature.

Third is intersectionality: The way in which we currently challenge oppression is to separate oppressed groups from disability. This reinforces ableism and dominant conceptions of the human because disability is always seen as a subhuman form of being.
Russell, Marta. "The Social Movement Left Out." The Social Movement Left Out. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Aug. 2015. http://www.soaw.org/resources/anti-opp-resources/112-abilities/828-the-social-movement-left-out.
It is disheartening,...towards global justice.

IMPACT:

Speech is a prerequisite to rationality. It is how we articulate truth.
St Pierre2, Joshua. "Cripping Communication: Speech, Disability, and Exclusion in Liberal Humanist and Posthumanist Discourse." Communication Theory 25.3 (2015): 330-348.
John Durham Peters...rational and intelligible.

the idea of the universal speaker excludes stuttering. Every word is a test for me, when I fail I am no longer human.
St Pierre3, Joshua. "Cripping Communication: Speech, Disability, and Exclusion in Liberal Humanist and Posthumanist Discourse." Communication Theory 25.3 (2015): 330-348.
To speak as...speech be unraveled.

ALT: Reject the liberal human subject in favor of a post human cyborg subject.

Cyborgs transgress traditional humanist dualisms.
Goodley, Dan. Disability studies: An interdisciplinary introduction. Sage, 2010.
Thinking point: The...mutually inclusive concepts?

The cyborg undermines the power of the universal speaker and challenges humanism. St Pierre4, Joshua. "Cripping Communication: Speech, Disability, and Exclusion in Liberal Humanist and Posthumanist Discourse." Communication Theory 25.3 (2015): 330-348.
I have suggested...logocentricism from within

ROB: to vote for the debater who best challenges dominant conceptions of the body.

Discourse about our bodies is particularly important is education.
Ervelles, Nirmala. Educating Unruly Bodies: Critical Pedagogy, Disability Studies, and the Politics of Schooling, Nirmala Ervelles Educational Foundations, Leadership, and Technology Auburn University 2000
For example, critical...project of schools.

This is a Prerequisite to engagement. Discursive exchange always assumes access to the space.
Boys, Jos. “challenging the 'normal': towards new conceptual frameworks”, http://sowhatisnormal.co.uk.contentcurator.net/challenging
This shifts the...of that difference.