Hands Up, Don’t Shoot!
The normalization of disability as an empowered status purportedly recognized by the state is produced through the creation and sustaining of debilitation on a mass scale
Jasbir K. Puar
Jasbir K. Puar is a writer, professor, and public speaker. She is the author of the award-winning Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007), an expanded 10th anniversary version of which is forthcoming (Dec 2017), as well as numerous articles in mainstream, scholarly, and alternative venues. She is currently working on her third book, Slow Life: Settler Colonialism in Five Parts, a collection of essays on duration, pace, and acceleration in Palestine.