Crip Spacetime Concepts
This phrase challenges the idea that “time heals,” arguing instead that it can perpetuate inequity.
What is Time Harms?
This symbol (∞) represents the endless cycle of proving and re-proving disability in institutions.
What is the accommodations loop?
This participant’s blindness required self-accommodation after a university failed to provide readers or software.
Who is Jacky?
This scholar’s “Rest Is Resistance” emphasizes rest as a radical act.
Who is Tricia Hersey?
This strategy delays access through unnecessary procedures and “hassle.”
What is slow-rolling or rationing by hassle?
This term refers to the unique temporal and spatial experiences of disabled academics.
What is crip spacetime?
One stage in the loop where workers prove disability repeatedly, often through tests and documents.
What is biocertification?
This participant was accused of faking her disability after HR misinterpreted a YouTube video.
Who is Miyoko?
“Slow Professoring” by Berg and Seeber was criticized for not addressing this key issue.
“Slow Professoring” by Berg and Seeber was criticized for not addressing this key issue.
What is privilege?
Sending certified mail to delay conversations is an example of this tactic.
What is blanking or bureaucratic distancing?
The phrase “time heals” is countered by the author’s argument that institutional patience can lead to this.
What is harm through delay?
Emotional exhaustion and self-funding access are part of this stage of the loop.
What is employee uses own resources?
Priya, who has this chronic condition, had to plan her coursework two weeks ahead each month.
What is endometriosis?
heorist Rosi Braidotti connects capitalist acceleration to this negative force.
What is entropic frenzy?
A person of color who was most recently killed caused by the horrible consequences, including death, particularly for multiply marginalized disabled people.
Who is Jordan Neely
Terms that describe what minoritized academics face.
Disbelief, minimizing, gaslighting, and microaggressions
Margaret Price identifies this point in the loop as the fulcrum, where institutional and personal experiences intersect.
What is the overlap of slow systems and emotional cost?
The emotional toll and bureaucracy described by participants are examples of this larger institutional issue.
What is ableist academic culture?
This concept, theorized by Price and others, frames academic workplaces as perpetuating uneven access.
What is crip time?
This recurring administrative phrase—“bear with us”—exemplifies what harmful temporal logic?
What is institutional patience or time harm?
This feminist geographer’s idea of a “living present” connects time, accountability, and history.
Who is Rachel Loewen Walker?
This phrase from Sara Ahmed refers to institutions intentionally delaying change.
What is “dragging”?
The “slow system” paired with “time-sensitive needs” leads to this loop outcome.
What is employee burnout or departure?
This author’s Complaint! explores bureaucratic stalling and “blanking.”
Who is Sara Ahmed?
The accommodations loop becomes invisible because of this lack of institutional record.
What is no institutional memory?