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Alice Wong - Disability and College - Coggle Diagram
Alice Wong - Disability and College
What are some of the barriers to success that scholars with disabilities encounter on campus?
financial barriers: having to spend a lot for her disability, preventing her from working (102)
problems of standardized learning systems designed for able-bodied/able-minded folks
structural impacts of the physical enviropnment: putting a horizontal button sitch for wheelchair users--AND IT HELPED EVERYONE (99)
centering access needs leads to really cool problem solving and design innovation (architects and engineers)
safety concerns (100): waiting by herself without lights and raising SAFETY; new bus stop and independence (without accessibility in mind)
there are multiple forms of precarity that can happen at the intersection of disability and other identities
"Access for the sake of access" (the epigraph by Mia Mingus)
What are some mental barriers/psychic barriers?
Wong: "I didn't realize how hard I've been pushing my bodymind" (103)
there are uneven structures of support that even if everyone can "equally" access them, there's not an equitable design in mind
"internalized ableism" or internalized oppressions
living under white supremacist, heterosexist, settler colonialism is hard because the systems make marginal a variety of lives, and because this is the hegemonic norm, folks internalize a variety of violences/norms
the fragility of self-esteem
"they weren't ready for me" -- a reminder that while these buildings weren't made for people with disabilities, and there's some
the individual is not the problem (Wong isn't failing) the support and structures around her are failing
highlights the impact of the structural ableism and not the intent of the college
How does this look at CC?
biopower: the ways bodies and lives are organized create/contribute to systems of power, and it happens through desires, pedagogies, laws, and "will to know"; reveals the underlying structures of which bodies matter/which lives are liveable, and which lives are expendable
broken elevators
how does this serve our neurodiverse scholars?
some scary things for scholars with temporary disabilities