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In public settings, the disabled body seems to become a public body: it is grabbed, has its presence and its movements controlled and policed, and is made ever more dependent to force it to be grateful for the meager accommodations it receives. This article proposes an analysis of these public bodies, their status as anomalies in urban spaces, the ableist and eugenicist biopolitics that target them, all the way to the culture of internalised disablism.