The Care Work of Access

Current approaches to AI and Assistive Technology (AT) often foreground task completion over other encounters such as expressions of care. Our paper challenges and complements such task-completion approaches by attending to the care work of access—the continual affective and emotional adjustments that people make by noticing and attending to one another. We explore how this work impacts encounters among people with and without vision impairments who complete tasks together. We find that bound up in attempts to get things done are concerns for one another and how well people are doing together. Reading this work through emerging disability studies and feminist STS scholarship, we account for two important forms of work that give rise to access: (1) mundane attunements and (2) noninnocent authorizations. Together these processes work as sensitizing concepts to help HCI scholars account for the ways that intelligent ATs both produce access while sometimes subverting people with disabilities

Review of Brilliant Imperfection by Eli Clare (Duke University Press, 2017)

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Crip Kin, Manifesting

How might those who have experienced medicalized technologies as forms of neglect, intervention, and surveillance begin to cultivate alternative relations to technology? Drawing on the work of three artists—Lisa Bufano, Sunaura Taylor, and Chun-Shan (Sandie) Yi—I explore the possibility of framing technology as a site for crip kin-making. These artists are activating, interrogating, refusing, and repurposing medicalized aesthetics and technologies, finding within them inspiration and resources for their art practice. Rather than evaluating technologies on the basis of their ability to move bodies and minds into heightened productivity, efficiency, normalcy, and speed, they are creating objects and fostering relations that interrogate those very values. Building on scholars who recognize “kin” as encompassing more than the biological, reproductive, legal, and human, I discuss the possibilities of “crip kin,” recognizing the queer possibilities of intimacy with other presences and entities

Review of Lewiecki-Wilson and Cellio, Disability and Mothering

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Review of New Body Politics: Narrating Arab and Black Identity in the Contemporary United States

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Fixed: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement

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Guest Editors' Introduction: Growing Disability Studies: Politics of Access, Politics of Collaboration

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