Disrupting Fixity: Palestine as Central to Decolonial Disability Justice
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Keywords
disability, Palestine, settler-colonialism, ableism, Zionism
Abstract
This conversation enacts a decolonial feminist intervention, especially in the realm of knowledge production. More specifically, the conversation is a real-time attempt to “disrupt fixity” by insisting that the fight for the liberation of Palestine is central to decolonial disability futures.
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Laura Jaffee, Vanderbilt University
Dr. Laura Jaffee is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the Critical Design Lab at Vanderbilt University. She completed her PhD in Cultural Foundations of Education at Syracuse University. Prior to coming to Vanderbilt, Jaffee was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Education Studies at Colgate University for four years. Her research and teaching focus on disability justice, critical histories of U.S. higher education, and social and political movements in educational contexts. For the 2023-2024 academic year, she worked as a full-time labor organizer in the higher education sector and supported 1,200 low-wage student workers' successful campaign to unionize.
Lara Sheehi, The Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Doha, Qatar
Lara Sheehi, PsyD (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar. Prior to DI, Lara was at the George Washington University’s Professional Psychology Program where she was founding faculty director of the Psychoanalysis and the Arab World Lab. Lara’s work takes up decolonial and anti-oppressive approaches to psychoanalysis, with a focus on liberation struggles in the Global South. She is co-author with Stephen Sheehi of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine (Routledge, 2022) which won the Middle East Monitor's 2022 Palestine Book Award for Best Academic Book. Lara is the President of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (APA, Division 39), co-editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality and co-editor of Counterspace in Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. Lara is also a contributing editor to the Psychosocial Foundation’s Parapraxis Magazine and on the advisory board for the USA-Palestine Mental Health Network. Lara is currently working on a new book, From the Clinic to the Street: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures (Pluto, 2025).