Vitality, Interdependence, and Longing: Anarchiving a Multimodal Adventure of Cripping Our Pedagogy and Research Praxes With Care Work

• In Event: Friday Roundtable Session 11:25 am
  In Roundtable Session: Sustaining Disabled Research Pedagogies: Toward an Inclusive Approach to Educational Research (Table 4)

Abstract

This presentation is a collective reflection on a graduate disability studies course during which we, the authors, kept practicing access within the landscape of academia. We provide a playful (basket) case of interdependence and vulnerable intimacy that happened in the course, as well as an exploration of crucial questions that move us toward creativity and hope in higher education. Through anarchiving products from class work—a zine, poems, notes, and class discussions—we continue a spacetime of vitality and collective creation. As cripping pedagogy becomes research methodology, we weave care work into these cripped academic praxes through the warp of course content and classroom climate, and the weft of reckonings with grief and multiple understandings of disability.

Authors

• Laura Bettison, University of Utah

• S Shiver, University of Utah

• Danielle Susi-Dittmore, University of Utah

• irene h. yoon, University of Utah