Abstract:Nineteenth-century Spiritualism championed women with chronic illnesses as the ideal conduits for mediumship due to their assumed sensitivity. Positioning the movement’s many historical iterations of automatic writing as central to disability history, this article turns to two twentieth-century practitioners of automatic writing, Gertrude Stein and Lucille Clifton, whose centering of extrasensory perceptions in the compositional scene upend the privileging of the rational male subject who dominates accounts of… Show more
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