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disability hacktivism. 21 may 2013. disability + hacktivism go into a bar. Hacking and Computers & Writing Hacking and Disability Studies Reclaiming (and moving beyond) hacking.
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disability hacktivism • 21 may 2013
disability + hacktivism go into a bar... • Hacking and Computers & Writing • Hacking and Disability Studies • Reclaiming (and moving beyond) hacking
“... hackers are interested in manipulating technology for greater personal and social/community benefit. There is a strong antiestablishment ethos that is woven through hacker culture that traditional educators can learn a lot from.” • Rey Junco, 2010, n.p.
when disability enters the mix ... “Hacking the academy is quick prototyping. It's knowing how to search for plug-ins and tools for mash-up pedagogy and imaginative scholarship. It's knowing how to do, to build, to create -- and, more than that, giving others the tools they need to create on their own.” • Whitney Anne Trettien, 2010, n.p.
designing for the widest array of users possible↑universal design • participatory design • ↓ • a process of design by which users become co-designers
rehab narratives • sometimes semiosis hurts
disability + hacking • Hacking as passing • Hacking as fixing • Hacking as retrofitting
hacking as passing from Frith, Happé, & Siddons, 1994
hacking as passing • disabled people should do their best to feign normalcy • disabled people, despite any normative appearances, do not measure up
how disabled people pass (or: hackenvironments made for normative bodyminds) • Wear noise-canceling headphones to filter out ambient sounds. Hope professor doesn’t accuse you of not paying attention. • Arrive to class first and leave class last. • Attempt to lipread uncaptioned videos. • Wedge backpack between door and frame. Wriggle self and/or chair through opening. This, or wait for someone to hold door open for you. • Pretend to be disinterested instead of disabled. • Participate only via online backchannel(s). • Beg instructor for PDFs of readings weeks in advance. Take PDFs to disability services so they can run OCR and craft accessible PDF files. Fall behind on reading. • Pay $8,000 extra per semester in order to receive necessary supports. • Audit class. • Drop out of class. • Drop out of college. • Onus is on you, you, you. Because you are special.
hacking-as-fixing → bodyminds • hacking-as-retrofitting → space(s)
hacking as fixing • hackingautism.org
ADAPT protests • nothing about us without us, 1980s style
plain language • retrofitting jargonese • see “Nine Easy Steps to Longer Sentences” by Kathy McGinty
toward a criptastic reclamation of hacking • keep your norms off me
spoon theory • visibility vs. awareness • representing embodiment • calling attention to ableist social structures • what is a disability aesthetic when we incorporate mental disability? • what is accessibility when we incorporate mental disability?
CTP Programs Approved to Participate in the Federal Student Aid Programs Text
EMU pay-for-fee college support programs Arkansas Farleigh Dickinson Marshall
criptastic hacking vs. “ehhh” hacking • fluidity + temporal context • power structures • transgression + activism • systems change: moving beyond hacking
what bodies does hacking center? • How can teacher-scholars across discipline work to dismantle the oppressive narratives that dictate our pedagogical approaches to writing, technology, and tinkering? • Where are the tensions, dissensions, and productive overlaps in such conversations? • And, finally, how might we re-orient our own understandings of hacking in a more co-participatory, inclusive manner?
