In this episode, Clayton is joined by members of the Access in the Making (AIM) Lab at Concordia University, Prakash Krishnan, Emery Vanderburgh, and Nicholas Goberdhan to discuss the work of the AIM Lab. The AIM Lab is an anti-colonial, anti-ableist, feminist research lab working on issues of access, disability, environment and care through creative experimentation. We talk about why there is a need for work like that of the AIM Lab to intervene in academic and institutional ableism and how the AIM Lab upholds the tenets of anti-colonialism, anti-ableism, and feminism in their research and practice.

You can follow the AIM Lab on Twitter/X at @accessmaking and find out more on their website at accesinthemaking.ca.

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Sources

Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds by Arseli Dokumaci

Disability Visibility edited by Alice Wong

Reading for Palestine (AIM Project)

Air, River, Sea, Soil: A History of Exploited Land (AIM Project)

Mobilizing Disability Survival Skills for the Urgencies of the Anthropocene (AIM Project)

Audio Description in the Making (AIM Project)

De/Institutionalize: Multidimensional Care and Access in Academia (with the Access in the Making Lab)