This presentation outlines a legacy of disabled students’ activism, specifically attending to crip discursive resignification, citational & digital archival politics, and institutional memory. This project is both a senior honors thesis and an online open access community archive. In form, this archive aims to preserve recent and ongoing student movements toward building university Disability Cultural Centers through oral history and accessible archival methods; its accompanying thesis analyzes collected documents using a combination of interdisciplinary offerings such as narratology, critical disability studies, STS, and feminist phenomenology. This project is a labor of love– it exists because of the dedication, care, and ingenuity of disabled undergraduates everywhere.
Presenter: Katie Sullivan, Vanderbilt University