Indexing for Disability Justice: blocks, plates, boards, volumes and shafts

This index serves Disability Justice Tech.

It is online & accessible, here: indexingfordisabilityjustice.info.

This index tells stories with hir- her- his-storical technologies and negotiates affordances of naming affinity and embodiminded difference. Moving against techno- racial- capitalist narratives assuming that ‘we’ are only users — to be impacted upon and extracted from — here are a series of hir-storical intersectional, crip, Disabled, coalitional, queer, trans, BIPoC innovations that shift terms around technology - towards the transcrip plural.

In a conversation with Lieks Hettinga & Jara Rocha the buckets or sites of knowledge generation: blocks, plates, boards, volumes and shafts are discussed as technologies in the index that open up what can be understood as technology.

This website project shifts perceptions and proposes other starting points for technoscience, design and relationalities — reconfiguring who and what fits. The index begins with starting points around transgender and Disabled experiences — proposing what the possibilities can be when technology starts from our lived experiences. They move with aesthetic questions of how trans and Disabled experiences relate to one another and what the aesthetic specificity of our experiences are. The index considers questions about containment through forms (volumes, shafts, plates, boards and blocks) to sense through these forms, and to remain persistently slippery with consolidation too.