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EDEC 575: Critical Disability Studies, Week 7

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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

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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

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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 7:00

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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

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Next week:

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

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