The Weekly Read is Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life by Margaret Price. The book examines the experiences of disabled academics to show how attempts at providing individual accommodations actually impede rather than enhancing access. Sara Ahmed writes, “Crip Spacetime is a very important book not only for disability studies, gender studies, and race studies but also for anyone whose project is to think deeply about how the reproduction of institutions as being for some and not for others is a form of institutional violence. Margaret Price shows that we need collective accountability to do more than get more disabled people through the door, teaching us that if we listened to disabled academics, we would learn how to build better universities.” Margaret Price is Associate Professor of English at the Ohio State University and author of Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life. Read this fascinating book now for free! This title is made open-access due to funding from Ohio State University.
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