Contra* – Détails, épisodes et analyse

This season of Contra*, we’re sharing oral history interviews from the Remote Access Archives. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we spoke with a number of scholars and activists about mutual aid and pandemic times. 

What did remote access look like 20 years ago? 30 years ago? How has the disability community been innovating with phones, emails and the internet since these were emerging technologies? This episode features a conversation with Corbett O’Toole, a white, queer, disabled elder, artist and author, who discusses the significance of remote access technologies over the past few decades – from her role in the polio community to the early disability rights movement to disability justice today. 

For an episode transcript, visit criticaldesignlab.com.

Themes: 

• Disability advocacy and justice

• Anti-colonialism and the disability community 

• Remote participation and conferences 

• Queer feminism and the disability community

• COVID-19 pandemic and long COVID 

• Nomad community and internet access 

Links: 

• Corbett’s website

• Corbett’s scholarship in UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library

• Corbett’s scholarship in the SF Public Library History Archives 

• Remote Access Archive
  

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we spoke with a number of scholars and activists about mutual aid and pandemic times. This season we’re sharing some of those conversations. We’re also taking a closer look at some of the documents in the remote access archive in mini-episodes, like the one you're listening to today!

What was the role of remote access before the COVID-19 pandemic for the disability community? In this mini-episode, Kelsie looks at documents associated with the Toomey Gazette, later known as the Rehabilitation Gazette, a print newspaper sent out by a rehabilitation center to its broader community starting in 1955. 

For an episode transcript, visit criticaldesignlab.com.

Links:

Remote Access Archive

Crip News

For more information on our guest, show notes, and transcript please go to criticaldesignlab.com.

For more information on our guest, show notes, and transcript please go to criticaldesignlab.com

For more information on our guest, show notes, and transcript please go to criticaldesignlab.com.

For more information on our guest, show notes, and transcript please go to criticaldesignlab.com

For more information on our guest, show notes, and transcript please go to criticaldesignlab.com

For more information on our guest, show notes, and transcript please go to criticaldesignlab.com

For more information on our guest, show notes, and transcript please go to criticaldesignlab.com

For more information on our guest, show notes, and transcript please go to criticaldesignlab.com