EDEC 575: Critical Disability Studies, Week 7

Worksheet groups & super-groups

Higher Ed

1. Tasnim, Alex M, Aron (Changing DISE)
2. Roxann, Marie-Lyne, Rebecca (Changing SIS/OT)

Media

1. Anna, Rachel, Horatiu (Media list)
2. Ragad, Soledad, (Outreach) + Anu, Jacqueline (A11Y)

Community

1. Lindsey, Emmanuel, Francis (Clubs at McGill)
2. Lucia, Chloé, Coral, Alex C (Schools in the Community)

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Regrets: Monika

Today

1. Slides, bit of review
2. Worksheet 1 including break
1. No group-to-group after
3. Peers’ Nanoethnography
4. Worksheet 2
5. Next week

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Review++

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Ecofeminism

• (Not from last week, but useful context)
• 1970s: branch of radical feminism
• Radical feminism: women’s oppression due to patriarchy
• Ecofeminism: patriarchy and environmental destruction are linked

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Ecofeminism con’td

• Many flavours to ecofeminism
• Some: how domination over women & planet combined
• Others: spiritual link b/w women & planet
• Yes, it’s super essentialist
• With time: very anti-science
• “Development”, GMOs, monocultures

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Cyborg Feminism

• 1980s: response to ecofeminism
• Science is flawed
• But we shouldn’t write it off!
• We should create new tech & methodologies that are liberatory
• Body as a battlefield
• Women should have control over body

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Cyborg Feminism

• Pushing against binaries (such as the essentialism of ecofeminism)
• Cyborg: resists binary of natural/artificial
• Cyborg has gender -> resists biological essentialism

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Cyborg Feminism

• Note: 1980s/90s internet was not the patriarchal hellscape it is now
• You can play with identity on internet
• Time when ‘zines & feminist DIY being well-established
• Women as makers & knowers
• Transhumanism & Afrofuturism taking off

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Cyborg and Tryborg

• Cyborg feminist vision of cyborg as augmented humanity
• Crip critique: “augmented”, ignores existing real cyborgs
• Wiese:
• Cyborg: disabled person who relies on tech to live
• Tryborg: “wannabe”, can live without it

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Examples of Disability Dongles

• Digital glasses for “paying attention” for ADHD
• “Brain-wave aligned” hearing aids
• Haptic suit for deaf people to “listen” to music
• “Fancy” wheelchairs
• Recent: Segway’s “wheelchair”

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Worksheet 1

• Change of pace: more in-depth discussion of readings
• Set of common questions for evaluating any reading
• Useful for when you’re doing Milestone 2 and beyond

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Discussion Guidelines

• Come prepared
• Speak authentically
• Appreciate that no question is ridiculous
• Intend no harm
• Learn from mistakes

• Honour each other’s words and truths
• Honour silence
• Honour all emotions – including anger
• Embrace discomfort

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You have until 6:50

Discussion Guidelines

• Come prepared
• Speak authentically
• Appreciate that no question is ridiculous
• Intend no harm
• Learn from mistakes

• Honour each other’s words and truths
• Honour silence
• Honour all emotions – including anger
• Embrace discomfort

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You have until 7:00

Nanoethnography time!

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Discussion Guidelines

• Come prepared
• Speak authentically
• Appreciate that no question is ridiculous
• Intend no harm
• Learn from mistakes

• Honour each other’s words and truths
• Honour silence
• Honour all emotions – including anger
• Embrace discomfort

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You have until 8:23

Next week:

• Topics next week:
• Colonialism
• Migration
• Due: full draft of Milestone 2 for marking

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