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Access and "Access Intimacy" - Coggle Diagram
Access and "Access Intimacy"
How have we been trained to see "access"?
availability of physical and mental space
allowing spaces for people need room to think and be
language access (lack of training in Spanish for the clinic)
access and "inclusion"
audio, descriptive captions, multimedia "inclusion" in the sonic life of texts?
physical accessibility through movement?
elevators, escalators, ramps, buttons for doors
access might not look the same
see Williamson on International Symbol of Access (17). There's more than one type of access
Bess Williamson "Access"
"Furthermore, in a human rights framework can be described" "
see Williams on "access" to housing, jobs, etc (15)
What is "access intimacy"?
the feeling of being safe with someone because they recognize your access needs without prompting: "Access intimacy is that hard to describe feeling when someone else 'gets' your access need" (Missing Link)
intimacy: inner-most, a drawing inwards: "It brings the people who are a part of it closer; it builds and deepens connections" (Missing Link)
a strength built on reciprocity
bringing interdependence to the surface
"For me, I understand Access Inimacy as something that can trasnform ordinary access into a tool for liberation" (AI and Interdependency)
"Liberatory Access gets us closer to the world we want and ache for. [...] There is no liberatory access without access intimacy" ("Liberatory Access & Interdependence")
"transformative powers of disability" takes pity out of the equation and centers a liberatory world making through cripestimologies
it critiques the system rather than folding disabled bodies/lives into the system
"Access intimacy iis not charity"
Rights
lack of access can prevent one from participating in US democratic/civic process
educational rights
What would be needed to make one of your social, professional, and/or activist spaces more grounded in "access intimacy"? (maybe this is about your project 2? Maybe this is just some general brainstorming/freewriting)/
education and transcripts/ephemera
closed captions and transcripts are access intimacy
closed captions in class
but autotranscipts aren't perfect; doesn't replace live interpreters and in socio-economic-racial-gendered contexts
a radical idea of interdependence and education
Disability Justice
"What if you're disabled and undocumented? What if you think the settler colonial nation we live in is a farce and a hallucination? What if you don't have money to sue an inaccessible business?" (76)
justice seeks to remedy actual experiences of people with disbailities across bodyminds--it's not subsumed by the limiting idea of "human right"
disability justice disavows single-axis models of "rights"
"the spaces where white0dominated, single-issue, civil rights approach that depends on the ability to use lawsuits to acheive disability liberation leaves many of us behind" (40).
"when access is centralized at the beginning dream of every action or event, that is radical love" (76). It's love as an action-verb.
"When disabled people get free, everyone gets free"
Mia Mingus: "instead working to view access as collective and interdependent" (Changing the framework)
Crip Emotional Intelligence
bullet points are super fun (and useful for readers who skim, scan, read in reverse, etc)
emotion moves us away from independent self to interdependence
spoon theory: if we have a set amount of emotional/physical resources, everything costs something (spoons); it's a navigation of how bodyminds spend resources (and that's different for others)
Dr. Pina and Andrews:
accessibility is about all users and how your text reaches everybody
how technology
makes
the text and enacts the arguments
How to Design and Write Web Pages Today: instead of installing a curb, a sloped exit benefits everyone
https://wave.webaim.org/
access incorporated in your workflow (think about upfront who and how content is accessed)
your experience of documents and web content might be radically different from other bodies and technology
providing alt-text and transcripts upfront is part of preparing for publication
participatory design: not I design it and give it to users with disabilities, but instead, collaborative design
access as also "not assuming everyone has the connectivity"