About Tanya Titchkosky
Tanya Titchkosky is a Professor in the Department of Humanities, Social Science and Social Justice Education in the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. She is author of The Question of Access: Disability, Space, Meaning (2011); Reading and Writing Disability Differently: The Textured Life of Embodiment (2007); and Disability, Self and Society (2003); and coeditor, with Rod Michalko, of Rethinking Normalcy: A Disability Studies Reader (2009).
When we know that norma is the Latin word for T-square and that normalis means perpendicular, we know almost all that must be known about the area in which the meaning of the terms “norm” and “normal” originated…. A norm, or rule, is what can be used to right, to square, to straighten… to impose a requirement on an existence.
—Georges Canguilhem, The Normal and the Pathological (1978), 239.