Suggested resources to engage alongside I Was Never Alone or Oporniki.
Media About the Project
“What Does Anthropology Sound Like: Performance.” Anthropod. The podcast of the Society for Cultural Anthropology. March 8, 2022.
Contemporary Russian Disability Culture
| Format | Director/Author | Title | Links | Language | Year Released |
| Feature Film | Vladimir Rudak | “Pineapple “ | Watch the documentary on YouTube | Russian | 2016 |
| Feature Film | Vladimir Rudak | “Tough Guys Don’t Dance“ | Watch the documentary on YouTube | Russian | 2005 |
| Feature Film | Dmitriy Tyurin | “Love With Disabilities” | See the IMDB listing | Russian | 2017 |
| Documentary Short | Vladimir Rudak | “A New Planet: Disability in Russia“ | Watch the documentary on YouTube | Russian | 2014-15 |
| Music Videos | Whomever However Orchestra (Оркестр Кто Как Может) | “Vladimir Rudak and the Whomever However Orchestra (Оркестр Кто Как Может)“ | Watch the playlist on YouTube | Russian | 2010-18 |
| Documentary Short | Ekaterina Uvarova | “Sergeich 10” | Watch the documentary on YouTube or See the IMDB listing | Russian | 2016 |
| Graphic Novel | Vladimir Rudak (words) and Lena Uzhinova (images) | “I, Elephant” | Buy the book here | Russian | 2017 |
| Film Festival | Perspektiva NGO (organizer) | Breaking Down Barriers International Disability Film Festival in Moscow | Find the website here | Russian | 2002 |
Performance Ethnography
| Author | Title | Links | Additional Links | Year Published |
| Aimee Meredith Cox | “Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship” | Find the book here | More about the author here | 2015 |
| E. Patrick Johnson | “Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South” | Find the book here | More about the author here | 2011 |
| Magdalena Kazubowski- Houston | “Staging Strife” | Find the book here | More about the author here | 2010 |
| Soyini Madison | “Critical Ethnography: Method, Ethics, and Performance“ | Find the book here | More about the author here | 2020 |
Ethnography of Contemporary Russia & Russian Disability History
| Author | Title | Links | Year Published |
| Anastasia Kayiatos | “Sooner Speaking than Silent, Sooner Silent than Mute: Soviet Deaf Theatre and Pantomime after Stalin” and “Pantomimes of Power and Race: Can the Socialist Subaltern Speak” | Link to the article in Theatre Survey Link to the article in Ulbandus Review | 2010 |
| Claire Shaw | Deaf in the USSR: Marginality, Community, and Soviet Identity, 1917-1991 | Link to journal here | 2017 |
| Katharine M Wieldlack & Masha Neufeld | “Dangerous and Moving? Disability, Russian Popular Culture and North/Western Hegemony” | Link to journal here | 2016 |
| Michael Rasell & Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova | Disability in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union: History, Policy and Everyday Life | Find the book on the publisher’s website | 2014 |
| Sarah D. Phillips | Disability and Mobile Citizenship in Postsocialist Ukraine | Find the book on the publisher’s website | 2011 |
| Tova Höjdestrand | Needed by Nobody: Homelessness and Humanness in Post-Socialist Russia | Find the book on the publisher’s website | 2009 |
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