Access, Interdependence and the Dynamics of Dissensus


Esther Ignagni, Toronto Metropolitan University; Eliza Chandler, Toronto Metropolitan University; Kelly Flinn, Toronto Metropolitan University; Lokchi Lam, York University

In this presentation, we engage with disability justice frameworks that foreground access intimacy to explore how the turn to critical access and interdependence works to resist ableism and other forms of hate. Drawing on a series of design fiction workshops, we consider the possibilities of shared vulnerability in the dynamics of a generative dissensus that emerges when envisioning access in crip futures. We will also explore the limits of dissensus within relationships of interdependence and care, which sometimes require us to sustain rather than resist relationships we find ableist or otherwise marked by hate.

This paper will be presented at the following session: