DISABLED BODY AND ONESELF TECHNIQUES IN THE PANDEMIC

Abstract

The objective of this text is to consider the experiences of disabled people in the Covid-19 pandemic and the strategies created to survive/to live in the context that is imposed on them. The reports and data presented come from interviews and informal conversations, via Skype and Whatsapp, as a way to maintain social isolation, but also to generate accessibility for disabled bodies (of the researcher and interviewees), as well as a small autoethnography. These reports demonstrate that the pandemic affects bodies in different ways, and that disabled bodies are affected in more dangerous ways, hence the need to create strategies and oneself techniques (FOUCAULT, 2010) to survive/to live in/to the pandemic. This also demonstrates the potential, creativity and inventiveness of disabled bodies, both in relation to themselves and as points of contrast and reflection about society.