How should stuttering look in text? Can representations of stuttering in written form reflect its spontaneity and variety? Host Patrick Campbell is joined by Chris Constantino and artist Conor Foran to discuss how Conor’s final project in art school led him to a decade-long project in creating a typeface, Dysfluent Mono, that represents stuttering. Conor explains how the font tries to escape stereotypical references of stuttering and his journey to publishing the magazine Dysfluent, which uses the font.

Links

• Conor Foran
• Dysfluent magazine
  • ‘Making Waves’ stuttering pride flag - Dysfluent magazine
  • Stuttering Can Create Time billboard by People Who Stutter Create collective
  • Stuttering Foundation of America
  • Portraits of people stammering - Paul Aston
  • JJJJJerome Ellis

• Willemijn Bolks
• Stutterology - Ezra Horak
• The Clearing - JJJJJerome Ellis

Chris Constantino is a stutterer and speech language pathologist at Florida State University who teaches stuttering and counselling to graduate students, and supervises therapy. Chris researches how we can make the experience of stuttering better.

Conor Foran is a London-based Irish artist who stutters. He is the founder of Dysfluent magazine, was a collaborator on the ‘making waves’ stuttering pride flag, and most recently collaborated with the People Who Stutter Create collective to create the Stuttering Can Create Time billboard.

What does it mean to be proud of one’s stutter? What does one gain from their stutter? Hosts Patrick, Maria, and Josh are joined by Chris Constantino to discuss his radical essay Stuttering Gain and dive into the world of stuttering pride. In this episode, they talk about the unique experience of stuttering and how we can find benefit in stuttering, as opposed to only thinking about stuttering as a lack of fluency. While the experience of stuttering is difficult, Chris argues that this doesn’t mean there is nothing we have to gain or be proud of.

Links

• Stuttering Gain by Chris Constantino (2016)
• Difference in Itself’: Validating Disabled People's Lived Experience by James Overboe (1999)
• The Question of Access: Disability, Space, Meaning by Tanya Titchkosky (2011)
• Honest Speech by Erin Shick
  • Two access options: Youtube (no text version but video has captions, better audio); Voicemail Poems (with text, lower audio quality)
• Stammering Pride and Prejudice edited by Patrick Campbell, Christopher Constantino, Sam Simpson (2019)
• Forced Intimacy: An Ableist Norm by Mia Mingus (2017)
• Access Intimacy: The Missing Link by Mia Mingus (2011)
• Distressing Language: Disability and the Poetics of Error by Michael Davidson (2022)
• The Case for Conserving Disability by Rosemary Garland-Thomson (2012)
• The Gift of Stuttering by Ian Wilkie for TEDxFrensham (2022)
• On the Negative Possibility of Suffering: Adorno, Feminist Philosophy, and the Transfigured Crip To Come by Kelly Fritsch (2013)
• Conor Foran
• JJJJJerome Ellis

Chris Constantino is a stutterer and speech language pathologist at Florida State University who teaches stuttering and counselling to graduate students, and supervises therapy. Chris researches how we can make the experience of stuttering better.

On this first full episode of Disorderly Voices, hosts Patrick Campbell and Maria Stuart are joined by Josh St. Pierre to discuss his article “The Construction of the Disabled Speaker: Locating Stuttering in Disability Studies.” In this work Josh traces the origins of speech norms and how they are embedded within economic and social structures. Josh, Patrick, and Maria discuss his work within the broader context of disability studies, the relation between stammering and forms of oppression and what it means to develop solidarity among stammerers as a political community.

Links:

• The Construction of the Disabled Speaker (Open Access)
• Living Archives on Eugenics in Western Canada
• Tanya Titchkosky, Disability, Self, and Society (2006)
• AJ Withers, Disability Politics and Theory (2024)
• Patrick Campbell, Christopher Constantino, Sam Simpson (Eds), Stammering Pride and Prejudice (2019)
• Alison Kafer, Feminist, Queer, Crip (2013)
• Did I Stutter?
• JJJJJerome Ellis
• Joshua St. Pierre, Cheap Talk: Disability and the Politics of Communication (2022)

Joshua St. Pierre is a Canada Research Chair in Critical Disability Studies and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta. Josh leads the Stuttering Commons project, a cross-disciplinary and trans-national collective that seeks to establish dysfluency studies as a recognized and accessible field of knowledge.