Staging accessibility: collective stories of Relaxed Performance

Jones, Chelsea Temple; Collins, Kim; Rice, Carla

doi:10.1080/13569783.2022.2029388

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“…As many critical access scholars have noted, the stresses and challenges of individually navigating a world designed for non-disabled people and of trying to carve out accessible pathways through it wears down/wears out those users who embody difference before they even arrive in a space (Ahmed, 2019; Chandler et al, 2021; Jones et al, 2022; Rice, Riley, et al, 2021). Disabled people commonly confront this scenario in neoliberal ableist jurisdictions such as Canada, where legislation and policy tend to download responsibility for access onto individuals who require it (Rice, Chandler, et al, 2021; Rice et al, 2016).…”

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Direct[Message]: Exploring Access and Engagement With the Arts Through Digital Technology in COVID Times

Rose

Rice

Alfaro-Laganse

et al. 2022

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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Direct[Message], a community-based research (CBR) project developing a digital platform supporting older adults engagement with the arts through digital technologies, faced the challenge of redesigning the research protocol after the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in March 2020. The redesign, which brought challenges and opportunities, allowed the research team to embed the project with process goals considering older adults’ experiences of social isolation, and exploring how these experiences might be mitigated by greater access to the arts through technology. This article explores the redesign process undertaken by the Direct[Message] team and presents preliminary findings from this multiyear study.

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Direct[Message]: Exploring Access and Engagement With the Arts Through Digital Technology in COVID Times

Rose

Rice

Alfaro-Laganse

et al. 2022

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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“…Through our archive of multi‐media stories and our application of feminist disability theories and activisms, we have considered the ways that ED intersects with the ableist, sexist, neoliberalized Canadian academy. In presenting and contextualizing this archive, our intention is not to “raise awareness” of ED as another kind of disability requiring individual accommodations, or as an additional checkbox for institutional equity and diversity policies that promote inclusion only insofar as existing power relations and underlying values can be maintained (Ahmed, 2012; Jones et al., under review). Neoliberalized post‐secondary institutions undermine social justice by tolerating disability and difference while failing to address their own debilitating and disabling conditions.…”

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Episodic disability in the neoliberal university: Stories from the Canadian context

Rice

Harrison

Giddings

et al. 2023

Gender Work & Organization

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This article explores how episodic disability (ED) is created and intensified by, present within, and pushed out of the neoliberalized academy in Canada. ED is an umbrella term for a range of physical, mental, and neurological conditions characterized by fluctuation and unpredictability. Over two million working‐age Canadians are affected by ED, with women more likely to be impacted. To consider how ED interacts with post‐secondary education, we put feminist disability theories of embodied precarity, crip time, and disability justice into conversation with multimedia stories created by post‐secondary women workers with EDs, with story‐makers contextualizing and theorizing their creations, and revealing their complex embodied and embedded experiences. We chose these from stories generated in two research projects focused on transforming negative concepts of disability to serve as an “archivy” of embodied precarity that challenges ED's erasure in the academy. We think with the stories to analyze power and resistance in and on gendered and raced academic bodies along three overlapping themes: debility and vulnerability in the neoliberal university; fault‐lines of neoliberal time and embodied time; and EDs as produced in, and pushed out of, the neoliberal academy. Considering interrelations between ED and post‐secondary education under neoliberalism, we argue that feminist disability theory and justice praxis challenge debilitating and exclusionary expectations that harm people with EDs in and outside of the academy.

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“…One enabling component involved intentionally creating a relaxed space that we co-constituted by enacting a disability cultural practice called "relaxed performance" (e.g., Collins et al 2022;Jones et al 2022). Relaxed performance has emerged in the last few decades from a growing recognition of the contributions of disability, d/Deaf, mad, ageing, and fat activist-artists to disability rights and justice movements and the need to educate the mainstream about non-normative cultural practices to improve access to art (LaMarre et al 2021).…”

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“…Salima alludes to neoliberal inclusionism, describing it as a marketing strategy of commercial enterprises that asks/expects bodies of difference to assimilate to the norm through so-called "inclusion" tactics that merely expand tolerance rather than meaningfully building difference-affirming spaces (Bailey et al 2023;Jones et al 2022;Mitchell and Snyder 2015). In her interview, she also highlighted the entangled nature of inclusion and racial and disability justice, where hiring "folx that live at various intersections that might have a better way of connecting to people" can contribute to establishing more meaningfully inclusive spaces.…”

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Revisioning Fitness through a Relational Community of Practice: Conditions of Possibility for Access Intimacies and Body-Becoming Pedagogies through Art Making

Bessey,

Bailey,

Besse

et al. 2023

Social Sciences

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ReVisioning Fitness is a research project and community of practice (CoP) working to reconceptualize “fitness” through a radical embrace of difference (e.g., trans, non-binary, queer, Black, people of colour, disabled, and/or fat, thick/thicc, curvy, plus sized), and a careful theorising of inclusion and access. Our collaborative and arts-based work mounts collective resistance against the dominant power relations that preclude bodymind differences within so-called “fitness” spaces. In this work, we build queer, crip, and thick/thicc alliances by centring relational and difference-affirming approaches to fitness, fostering a radical CoP that supports dissent to be voiced, access intimacies to form, and capacitating effects of body-becoming pedagogies to be set in motion. In this article, we consider how conditions of possibility both co-created and inherited by researchers, collaborators, and the research context itself contributed to what unfolded in our project and art making (multimedia storytelling). By a radical CoP, we mean that we mobilise a more relational and difference-affirming notion of CoP than others have described, which often has involved the reification of sameness and the stabilisation of hierarchies. Further, we call on leaders in fitness organisations to open conditions of possibility in their spaces to allow for alternative futures of fitness that centre difference.

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Staging accessibility: collective stories of Relaxed Performance

Cited by 7 publications

References 42 publications

Direct[Message]: Exploring Access and Engagement With the Arts Through Digital Technology in COVID Times

Direct[Message]: Exploring Access and Engagement With the Arts Through Digital Technology in COVID Times

Episodic disability in the neoliberal university: Stories from the Canadian context

Revisioning Fitness through a Relational Community of Practice: Conditions of Possibility for Access Intimacies and Body-Becoming Pedagogies through Art Making

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