Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : theorising ableism in academia

The significance of crashing past gatekeepers of knowledge : towards full participation of disabled scholars in ableist academic structures

I am not disabled : difference, ethics, critique and refusal of neoliberal academic selves

Disclosure in academia : a sensitive issue

Fibromyalgia and me

A practical response to ableism in leadership in UK higher education

Autoimmune actions in the ableist academy

‘But you don’t look disabled’ : non-visible disabilities, disclosure and being an ‘insider’ in disability research and ‘other’ in the disability movement and academia

Invisible disability, unacknowledged diversity

Imposter

Internalised ableism : of the political and the personal

From the personal to the political : ableism, activism and academia

The violence of technicism : ableism as humiliation and degrading treatment

A little bit extra

Concluding thoughts : moving forward