While Schalk is influenced by the definition of debilitation offered by Livingston and Puar, Schalk has opted to use the word disability throughout the book Black Disability Politics because of how while disability identity is not essential for Black disability politics, disability studies and disability justice are central frameworks in the book. And because disability honors the preferred term of communities within which Schalk developed the research and because it is her own terms of identification. 

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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

Schalk, Sami. Black Disability Politics, New York, USA: Duke University Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478027003

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