Allyson Day builds on intra-activity to explain that diagnosis - who gets a diagnosis, how we wield diagnostic labels, the framing of diagnosis in deficit models and medical models of disability that frame who is seen by the medical field as abnormal - is an operation of power.

University of Wisconsin - Madison

There is pretty good understanding within disability studies spaces about the barriers individuals face in getting access to a diagnosis (provider biases, access to resources, time, access to health insurance) which can all be considered aspects of inter-activity because of how we see both the formation of disability being created through the lens of race, gender, socio-economic status, body size, etc. but also how experiences of racism, misogyny, antifatness, and classism in medical settings can in turn shape identity formation of non-disabled identity categories.

Intra-Activity and Diagnosis

Price, M. (2024). Crip Spacetime. Duke University Press.

Crip Spacetime

Day, Allyson. 2021. The Political Economy of Stigma: HIV, Memoir, Medicine and Crip Positionalities. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.

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