It's About (Queer/Disabled) Time: Temporal Experiences of Disability and Sexuality in Higher Education

• In Event: 70.065 - Roundtable Session 27
  In Roundtable Session: 70.065-15 - Queer Intersections

Abstract

This study offers a queer/disabled understanding of time by considering the higher education experiences of queer students with disabilities. Utilizing concepts from critical temporalities and the emerging dialogue between queer theory and disability studies, this paper considers students’ orientation to time in the classroom and on campus. Primary data sources include in-depth interviews with 10 undergraduate and graduate students at a research-intensive university. Preliminary findings illuminate students’ encounters with the increasingly fast tempo of university life that emphasizes timely graduation above seemingly all else and reveal that performing queer/disabled on campus requires significant time. This study offers educational researchers and practitioners a socially constructed view of temporalities that can be used to reconsider how educational institutions serve students.

Author

• Ryan Miller, University of North Carolina - Charlotte