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AbstractThis paper argues for the significance of time to Julia Watts Belser’s disability theology in Loving Our Own Bones. Belser’s focus on the wholeness of the present responds to significant problems in ableist conceptions of healing, which imply the insufficiency of the present self. This paper suggests how these ideas should lead to new thinking about time more broadly, encouraging a different kind of future-thinking instead of resisting it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Wounds teach us what we were vulnerable to and what vulnerabilities we may yet bear. But wounds are often met with doubt and disbelief, suggesting that their lessons may be hard to learn. Through an analysis of advocacy movements to believe victims of sexual assault set in conversation with Caravaggio's Incredulity of Thomas, this paper argues for an understanding of vulnerability as part of a process of learning from wounds that is sometimes marked by emotional incredulity, an expression of doubt or denial of what one knows to be true because of the way its realization feels. Emotional incredulity in these circumstances is not a denial of vulnerability that pretends to mastery, but one that expresses the challenge of learning, together, how much we do not know of ourselves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]