Acknowledgements

List of contributors

Introduction

BIANCA C. FRAZER & HEATHER R. WALKER

PART I: SOCIAL MEDIA, SOCIAL WORLDS & ACTIVISM

Diabetes Twitter: A Communal Retort to Capitalism by JEFFREY A. BENNETT

What’s in a Name? The Diabetes Civil War by LORA ARDUSER

The #insulin4all Movement: A Few Committed Individuals Isn’t Enough by CLAIR IRWIN

One or many voices: narratives from #Insulin4all by VALENTINA STURIALE & GUIDO ANSELMI

PART II: FILM, TELEVISION, VISUAL ART, AND PERFORMANCE

Laughing to Keep from Dying: Black Americans with Diabetes in Sitcoms and Comedies by PHYLLISA DEROZE

“Diabetes, Yuck!”: Comedy, Disability, and The Dangers of Parody in Parks and Recreation (2009-2015) by BIANCA C. FRAZER

Diabetic Data Art: Numbers Beyond Control by SAMUEL THULIN

Panic Rooms: Suspense In Type 1 Diabetes by MATT PACZKOWSKI

My Tale Told by a Woman: Lucille and The Dramaturgy of Diabetes by G. WILLIAM ZORN

PART III: STARING, CODING, AND READING THE DIABETIC BODY

Please Don’t Pet: Reflections on Life with My Diabetes Alert Dog by TAYLOR JOHNSON

How to Wear (and Hide) Your Insulin Pump: Managing Device Connectedness with Gendered Bodies Online by STEPHEN HORROCKS

PART IV: RE-SCRIPTING AND RESISTING SPOILED IDENTITIES

Desiring Decay: The Power of Unwellness and the Dynamics of Cure in Lina Meruane’s Fruta podrida (2007) by ELIZABETH JAN JONES

The Blame and Shame Game: Transforming Medical and Social Interactions by MILA CLARKE BUCKLEY

The Monstering of Diabetes: The Failure of Fear and Sarcasm in Public Health PSAs by CYNTHIA MARTIN

Hurt, Comfort and Intimacy: Representations of Diabetes in Fan Fiction by JUSTINE DEBELIUS

PART V: DISABILITY IDENTITY, CRIP FUTURES AND LIBERATION

Self-Exceptionism and its Counternarrative: An Autonetnography of Shifting Diabetes Identity by HEATHER R. WALKER

“Especially Made for Them”: Summer Camps for Diabetic Children by KIRSTEN E. GARDNER

Troubling Cure and Cripping Futurity: Queering Narratives of Diabetes by S.K. SABADA

Diabetes Advocacy: Many Voices, One Message by STEPHEN SHAUL

Afterward by THERESE JONES

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