Notes, Notings, and Common Refrains

I love Garland's "normate!" ... Though I've only seen it referred to/ defined by other writers in Disability Theory -- haven't found it described by Garland herself, yet. I'm wondering if it was something she said in a symposium panel discussion, and everyone in the audience that day just picked it up and ran with it.

Here's the definition as Jay Timothy Dolmage wrote it, in his book Disability Rhetoric:

[‘Normate’ is] the constructed identity of those who, by way of the bodily configurations and cultural capital they assume, can step into a position of authority and wield the power it grants them.

I love: a) the link between "bodily configurations" and "Cultural Capital" (who gets represented in media, who's considered the preferable customer, etc.) and b) that "bodily configurations" covers a wider definition of just ability/disability, but also race and perceived gender.

So yes. I want this term to enter the the lexicon of common chatter, in the same way 'Straight' and "honky" have.