DisCrit Solidarity as Politics of Refusal in the Higher Education Classroom

• In Event: Biographical Authorship and Contestation of Institutional Construction of Disability at Raced Intersections

Abstract

Using autoethnographical methods and collaborative analysis, we, a trio of multi-disabled scholars of color teaching in higher education spaces, explore the ways that ableism and carceral logics show up in higher education when it comes to disability-related support. We recognize that higher education is imbued in anti-Black carceral logics, criminalizing students along lines of race and disability by utilizing surveillance and policing to restrict who is considered disabled, what accommodations, if any, students are provided, and as classroom management. We consider, then, what using DisCrit Solidarity, disability justice, and liberatory access looks like in the classroom, as we move beyond accommodations as liability or compliance, and meaningfully consider access as a politic employing models of community care, accountability, and curiosity.

Authors

• Claudia Chiang-Frost, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

• Anna Acha, University of California - Riverside

• Danielle Mireles, University of Nevada - Las Vegas