Book cover: Troubles Online: Ableism and Access in Higher Education, edited by Chelsea Temple Jones, Fady Shanouda, and Lisanne Binhammer.
We are thrilled to share that Troubles Online: Ableism and Access in Higher Education, co-edited by Fady Shanouda, Chelsea Temple Jones, and Lisanne Binhammer, is officially out today through Athabasca University Press! Published as part of the Issues in Distance Education series, this collection brings together scholars, educators, poets, and activists who explore how ableism persists in online learning spaces—and how we can do better.
Often framed as a tool for inclusion, online education is too frequently designed without the leadership or experiences of disabled, sick, mad, and crip educators and students. This timely volume challenges that gap. Through essays, conversations, interviews, and poetry, contributors reimagine what access could look like when rooted in justice, not just compliance.
In Fady Shanouda’s own chapter, “Caring Online: A Justice-Oriented Approach to Online Pedagogy” (co-authored with Jenna Reid), we’re invited to rethink care and connection in virtual classrooms. Rather than positioning access as a checklist or afterthought, the chapter—and the book as a whole—pushes us to center accessibility as a collective and political commitment.
In a time when digital learning is rapidly expanding, Troubles Online is an essential intervention. It expands our collective thinking about disability, design, and education—especially in spaces where the harms of inaccessibility are too easily hidden behind screens.
Available now in paperback, PDF, and EPUB !
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Please join us in congratulating Dr. Fady Shanouda and the entire editorial team on this powerful and much-needed publication. We look forward to seeing how it informs teaching, organizing, and advocacy in and beyond the academy.