“Disability Justice movements understand disability to be unevenly distributed, primarily affecting Black and Indigenous communities, queer and trans communities, and low income communities.”

“Accessibility is a promise, not a guarantee. It’s a speculative practice.”

“Disability is structurally reinforced by ableism, a system rooted in the supremacy of non-disabled people and the disenfranchisement of disabled people through the denial of access.”

“Conversations about disability often rely on the idea of accessibility as a set of particular, preset interventions, but accessibility requires great flexibility. It demands a malleable infrastructure that shifts, in real time, with the needs of the community.”

“The lack of representations of disabled bodies in CG stem from cultural tendencies to subjugate the disabled bodymind [which] are articulated in American policy.”

“… technology is a little bit like magic; it’s hard to pin down because it's so broad.”

“To me, the original game engine is a person, someone who formulates the story you are in and walks you through the story.”

“Technoscience to me would mean trying to use technology as a way of doing something useful in the world.”

“...the removal of context of work is ... detrimental to the legacy of the reason it has been made.”

“Art stems from a history of leisure, allowing you to put your interference onto whatever is there, and removing things from their origin.”

“...Before seeking new design solutions, we look for what is already working at the community level. We honor and uplift traditional, indigenous, and local knowledge and practices.”

“Disability Justice has opened pathways to explore these depths of radical love by holding space for the socio-political and historical positionality of Indigenous communities’, and our ancestral knowledges of disability.”

“Our ancestors were careful in their planning to consider all our relations, and provided us these blueprints, as both an understanding and a practice, to caretake one another with radical love.”

“Disability is never a single experience or a generalizable phenomenon....”

“... [Indigenous] technologies have been advanced since the beginning. I want our communities to see themselves in that.”

“Our communities — communities of colour — have been creating advanced technologies since the beginning of time.”

“...just normalizing difference [that] a lot of us have accommodations we need in this space.... [When] it’s normalized, there’s constant checking in, it becomes as normal as any of the other things that have become normal for us.”

I stand at the threshold of cyberspace and wonder, is it possible that I am unwelcome here, too? Will I be allowed to construct a virtual reality that empowers me? Can invisible men see their own reflections?

Desire-centered research does not deny the experience of tragedy, trauma, and pain, but positions the knowing derived from such experiences as wise. This is not about seeing the bright side of hard times, or even believing that everything happens for a reason ... a desire-based framework is about working inside a more complex and dynamic understanding of what one, or a community, comes to know in (a) lived life.

“If we use tools like storytelling in terms of teaching someone about technology, we have to think about their background, and use our experiences.”

“It’s important to look at technology not in opposition to emotional or arts-based practices in terms of learning.”

“The emotional part is important in teaching people about new media.”

“Indigenous Knowledges are part of broader political, legal, economic, and cultural systems that enable the continued generation and renewal of Indigenous Peoples to ensure their well-being.”

“Knowledge, whether from an Indigenous or Western system, should not be considered separately from its knowledge system.”

“…if we are to envision (new) media technologies as being inhabited by spirits, then might we not also endeavour to speculate about those spirits who are seemingly determined to spectralize — those apparitions, revenants, and ghosts whose will it is to haunt the lives of the living?”