Dr. Ashley Volion, “Access Intimacy: From Theory to Action”
March 5, 2021
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
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Chicago, IL 60612
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Disability Studies Working Group
Dr. Ashley Volion, “Access Intimacy: From Theory to Action”
Friday, March 5
3:30-5:00pm CST
RSVP at go.uic.edu/AccessIntimacy
Access info: Live captioning (CART) will be provided. For ASL and other access requests, please contact dcc@uic.edu
Join us for a practice job talk with Dr. Ashley Volion! No reading in advance-- this will be a presentation with Q&A and feedback!
About the job talk:
In 2011, writer and disability justice activist Mia Mingus, in her blog Leaving Evidence, described “access intimacy” as an, “elusive, hard to describe feeling when someone else gets your access needs” and a sense of “comfort that your [entire] disabled self feels” (Mingus, 2011). Since the coining of the term in 2011, various disabled bloggers have written about access intimacy, but academic writings on the term remain sparse. McNamara (2013) calls access intimacy the “missing piece” of the disability community. Due to the sparse amount of academic literature and the power behind the words used to describe access intimacy, this talk will focus on the doctoral work of Dr. Ashley Volion, who conducted a qualitative research study that explored the defining features of access intimacy, its importance, and the relationship between access intimacy and community building. Through blog posts and semi structured interviews, participants expressed that access intimacy was an important and unique form of intimacy that allowed them to view their disability as a natural part of the human experience, helping them to combat internalized stigma and shame.
About the working group:
The Disability Cultural Center and the Disability and Human Development Student Association (DHDSA) are proud to host the Disability Studies Working Group at UIC. Originally formed in 2018, the Disability Studies Working Group is a cross-disciplinary collective of researchers interested in disability studies and disability issues.
The Working Group offers a forum for sharing work in progress, not limited to conference papers, dissertation or manuscript chapters, and article drafts. Students, faculty, postdocs, other UIC affiliates, and members of the community are invited to join, and scholarly work from across the disciplines is welcome- humanities, social sciences, health sciences, hermeneutic, qualitative, quantitative, theoretical, etc. The Disability Studies Working Group provides an informal environment for scholarly cross-pollination, and endeavors to offer members of the UIC disability studies community a welcoming and supportive space to practice, experiment intellectually, and receive feedback.
Date posted
Feb 23, 2021
Date updated
Feb 23, 2021