Listed below are a few media and informational pieces on BIID / transableism.

Text

• Sarah Boesveld, National Post (2015): “Becoming Disabled by Choice, Not Chance: ‘Transabled’ People Feel like Imposters in Their Fully Working Bodies”
• Lara Irvine, ABC Ramp Up/Disability Gateway (2011): “Translating Transableism: When Being Able-bodied becomes a Disability”
• Mo Costandi, The Guardian (2012): “The Science and Ethics of Voluntary Amputation”
• Anil Ananthaswamy (2013): “This is what It’s Like to be at War with Your Body”
• Neil Levy, The Independent (2015): “Body Integrity Identity Disorder: The Condition where Sufferers want to be Disabled”
• Robin Marantz Henig (2005): “At War with Their Bodies, They Seek to Sever Limbs”
• Carl Elliott (2000): “A New Way to be Mad”
• Ewen Callaway (2009): “Desire to Amputate Healthy Limbs Shows Up in Brain Scans”
• Andrea Downey, The Sun (2017): “It’s Just Not Mine”
• Ed Cara, Medical Daily (2015): “What is Body Integrity Identity Disorder and Why did It Make a Woman Blind Herself?”

Video

• Barcroft TV segment with Chloe Jennings-White
• Anderson Cooper clip with Chloe Jennings-White
• Discovery Life: “Amputee Wannabe”
• Barcroft TV: “Living with BIID”

Radio

• Open Dialogue Episode “Transability,” 2017, Accessible Media Inc.

 

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