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This chapter explores the author’s own creative practice (Orchids: My Intersex Adventure), arguing that collective memory and revised representation of difference ruptures stigma and pre-inscription. The film work defies current medical interference and promotes ethical debates around the ‘will-to-normalise’ what is considered to be aberrant, deviant and abject.
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Hart, P. (2017). Aberrancy and Autobiographical Documentary. In: Brylla, C., Hughes, H. (eds) Documentary and Disability. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59894-3_6
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