trans + crip + tech symposium

In the past decade, anti-trans actors have worked to refashion transness as a kind of transient infection that endangers the public. Trans people, in these readings, are represented as victims of mass hysteria, with social media serving as a supposed progenitor for all things catchingly genderqueer. But disability is also integral to these conceptions of trans life, which often position crip, mad, and diagnostic internet cultures against what it means to be trans.

What, then, might a trans-crip digital future look like? How might we re/imagine trans-crip spaces that lean into the tensions between desire and bad feelings?

The trans + crip + tech symposium threads together conversations at the intersections of disability studies, transgender studies, and critical studies in technology. This event convenes scholars and activists to think together about trans-crip digital worldmaking, especially in the wake of hostile legislation transnationally.

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This event is organized by the Digital Accessible Futures Lab, which receives support from the DISCO Network. This event is also supported by the Canada Research Chairs Program.

Speakers

• Cassius Adair, Assistant Professor, School of Art, Media, and Technology, The New School
• Jules Edwards, Co-Executive Director, Autistic Women and Nonbinary Network
• Avery Everhart, Assistant Professor, Geography, University of British Columbia
• V. Jo Hsu, Associate Professor, Social & Cultural Analysis and Rhetoric & Writing, University of Texas at Austin
• Drew McEwan, Assistant Professor Limited Term, School of Disability Studies, Toronto Metropolitan University
• Lore/tta LeMaster, Associate Professor, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto