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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hubrig, Adam
• Osorio, Ruth

Titel

Enacting a Culture of Access in Our Conference Spaces

Ist Teil von

• College composition and communication, 2020-09, Vol.72 (1), p.87-96

Ort / Verlag

Urbana: National Council of Teachers of English

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Elizabeth Brewer, Cynthia L. Selfe, and Melanie Yergeau, Creating a Culture of Access in Composition Studies Access for the sake of access or inclusion is not necessarily liberatory, but access done in the service of love, justice, connection and community is liberatory and has the power to transform. - Neil Simpkins analyzes the sticky note protest at the 2019 CCCC Annual Convention as a manifestation of the feminist snap; Leslie Anglesey and Ellen Cecil-Lemkin recast the quiet room as a needed space for neurodivergent and disabled scholars; Margaret Fink, Janine Butler, Tonya Stremlau, Stephanie L. Kerschbaum, and Brenda Jo Brueggemann insist that conferences cultivate collective access by honoring individual communication access needs; Anonymous calls out the potentially fatal tradition of linking likeability to drinking alcohol in networking spaces; Cody A. Jackson and Christina V. Cedülo challenge everyone to assess the material realities of our approaches to disability scholarship and access work, emphasizing the risk this work creates for the most vulnerable of us. While architects can design a building according to the American National Standard Institutes policy on Accessible and Usable Buildings, the users in the space may lack access knowledge, thus contributing to a culture that ignores, neglects, or disdains the needs of disabled people. Tara Wood et al. caution that a simplistic "checklist approach [to access] locates disability over there, isolates disability within the body or mind of one student in one class, freezes disability as a set of symptoms rather than as a social process" (147).