(Un)doing Diabetes: Representation, Disability, Culture

Bianca C. Frazer is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Illinois Chicago with a PhD in Theater Studies from University of Colorado Boulder.  Heather R. Walker is the Associate Director of Qualitative Research at the University of Utah Health and earned her PhD in Disability Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago.

• AcknowledgementsList of contributors.- Introduction.- PART I SOCIAL MEDIA, SOCIAL WORLDS & ACTIVISM.- Diabetes Twitter: A Communal Retort to Capitalism.- What’s in a Name? The Diabetes Civil War.- The #insulin4all Movement: A Few Committed Individuals Isn’t Enough.- One or many voices: narratives from #Insulin4all.- PART II FILM, TELEVISION, VISUAL ART, AND PERFORMANCE.- Laughing to Keep from Dying: Black Americans with Diabetes in Sitcoms and Comedies.- “Diabetes, Yuck!”: Comedy, Disability, and The Dangers of Parody in Parks and Recreation (2009-2015).- Diabetic Data Art: Numbers Beyond Control.- Panic Rooms: Suspense In Type 1 Diabetes.- My Tale Told by a Woman: Lucille and The Dramaturgy of Diabetes.- PART III STARING, CODING, AND READING THE DIABETIC BODY.- Waking Up Metaphors of Diabetes.- Please Don’t Pet: Reflections on Life with My Diabetes Alert Dog.- How to Wear(and Hide) Your Insulin Pump: Managing Device Connectedness with Gendered Bodies Online.- PART IV RE-SCRIPTING AND RESISTING SPOILED IDENTITIES.- Desiring Decay: The Power of Unwellness and the Dynamics of Cure in Lina Meruane’s Fruta podrida (2007).- The Blame and Shame Game: Transforming Medical and Social Interactions.- The Monstering of Diabetes: The Failure of Fear and Sarcasm in Public Health PSAs.- Hurt, Comfort and Intimacy: Representations of Diabetes in Fan Fiction.- PART V DISABILITY IDENTITY, CRIP FUTURES AND LIBERATION.- Self-Exceptionism and its Counternarrative: An Autonetnography of Shifting Diabetes Identity.- “Especially Made for Them”: Summer Camps for Diabetic Children.- Troubling Cure and Cripping Futurity: Queering Narratives of Diabetes.- Diabetes Advocacy: Many Voices, One Message.- Afterward.- Index.