Claudia Maltese e Gresa Fazliu, Decostruzionista Antiabilista. Percorsi di autoeducazione personale e collettiva, 2023

This essay encapsulates the individual and collective training path of the two authors who met within the framework of a collective project of activism and dissemination on disability. A path common to many people with disabilities, which starts from the recognition of internalised ableism to its constant deconstruction, and then goes through an emotional, sentimental and political growth in its dimension of confrontation with the other than oneself. The fundamental step is to understand how the relationship with the rest of society works in order to arrive at what they call, with an even ironic tone that permeates the text, enlightenment: everything that had never worked was obviously not their fault. Disability is the result of a wrong relationship between people with disabilities and the world in which we live. And the two authors clearly tell us that we must try to change that relationship, together. Many areas are touched upon, from the concept of allied communities to inspiration porn and the figure of the supercrip, from the web as an accessible space to the world of social media, from the problems of representation of people with disabilities to the school and training years. And adult life with its own sexuality and desires, one above all: the desire for self-assertion and taking the floor in the first person.