Our summer course of Disability, Exclusion, and Schooling took place twice a week as a lecture-style seminar. The tables were covered in brown paper and students were given markers, crayons, paint, and other tools to doodle, think, and take notes. Each week, we added more marks to the same paper, layering thought, feeling, and concepts over and through each other. At the end, we made a book out of everything we had amassed. Here are some snapshots from our scribbles/collective thinking.
his is a painting of a pink figure with pink eyes, sitting, painted by a student during a class session of C&T4000, Summer 2025.[This is a line drawing of two figures with pig tails, drawn on paper during a class session of C&T4000, Summer 2025][Handwritten words: “It felt funny to struggle to watch a video about ADHD in a room full of people watching videos at the same time. (I have ADHD)” by a student during a class of C&T4000, Summer, 2025[painted doodles of a car, an angry figure on a “normal” curve, a figure skateboarding, and colors, painted by students during C&T4000, Summer 2025][This is a photograph taken of brown paper with doodles and paintings on it. Winding words read: “fourth space, fifth space” and gold, handwritten letters read: “Justice in THIS place?”][a piece of brown paper with handwritten words: “anticategorical- race, gender, sexuality and disability are social constructions/fictions. Reject these constructions/fictions. They have no meaning. Intracategorical- focuses on specific, defined intersections of neglected groups of master categories. Challenge comes from growing endless number of categories, leaves out disability. **Intercategorical**- discards additive approach, must include structural conditions and social context. Social constructs are enmeshed and constructed by each other. More contextual.][writing on piece of brown paper amongs doodles: “Disability studies- how we got here. Disability justice- where we’re going/can go.”][writing in marker on green paper: “-intersectionality -criminalization of disability -race, gendered, and disabled” ][jumbled handwriting that reads: LABELS. Capitalist, societies. “It was 2019 and everybody was finally equal…” Who benefits??” ][writing in green crayon that says: Who gets to speak about this? NOT THE POOR!][sketch of a “normal” curve, made by a student during class session of C&T4000, Summer 2025[floating abstract figures, drawn by student[s] in C&T 4000, Summer 2025][intricate doodles,, drawn and painted by student[s] in C&T 4000, Summer 2025[swaths of paint in various colors, painted by student[s] in C&T 4000, Summer 2025][intricate and multicolored painting- two figures surrounded by stenciled leaves, enclosed in painters tape. Made by Maddie McNally in C&T 4000, Summer 2025]
Body Tricks 