Puar argues that debilitation is separate from disablement because of debilitation's particular emphasis on the slow wearing down populations by acts such as racial violence rather than putting focus on the event of becoming disabled. 
Puar uses debility to complicate the binary of ability and disability because debility particular notes that while some bodyminds may not be recognized or identified as disabled they may be debilitated. Puar also notes that individuals who are debilitated but not read by society as disabled may become more debilitated because of there lack of access to disability resources.

Jasbir Puar's Extension of the Definition of Debilitation

Livingston defines debilitation or debility as not just based on physical impairment but also about history, and social relations.

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Black Disability Politics and the cultural workers who make Black Disability Politics engage with disability in a way that pays critical attention to the current sociopolitical contexts as well as the historical circumstances that have shaped the understanding of disability in Black communities.

In particular, since disability is understood by disability scholars as unstable due to how disability is inherently defined by societal context Black disability politics look at how race shapes understanding of disability - currently and historically - and vice versa.

Contextualized and Historicized

J. Livingston , Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana

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