Shirley Zhong
Scripps College, Media Studies and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Marginalia on Migration
My thesis is an animated short film that explores the intersections of disability and migration and how these identities are constructed and maintained by global capitalism, neocolonialism, and crip nationalism. The film features a family dinner that puts into conversation the family’s experience to the American medical industrial complex with another character, a migrant who doesn’t have the same access to these resources. I hope to bring forth a nuanced conversation about what disability and migration mean beyond their fields of theoretical study and subjecthood and to show how understanding their intersections at points of violence is essential to moving towards connected liberation.