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'Nothing about us without us!' (disability justice movements)
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Access intimacy is that elusive, hard to describe feeling when someone else "gets" your access needs. The kind of eerie comfort that your disabled self feels with someone on a purely access level."
Access intimacy: Mia Mingus, Access intimacy: The Missing Link, 2011
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"Write with your eyes like painters, with your ears like musicians, with your feet like dancers,. You are the truthsayer with quill and torch. Write with your tongues on fire."
Gloria Anzaldua, 'Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to Third World Women Writers', 1980
from WORDS IN OUR POCKETS , Celeste West, Editor
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"Access has this capacity to break through the medium [...] through access a single [ ] might exist as a description, as a notation, as sign language, as a transcript, or as a tactile object."
Caroline Lazard, Frieze 225, 2022
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"Crip technoscience is committed to interdependence as political technology. We position the crip politics of interdependence as a technoscientific phenomenon, the weaving of relational circuits between bodies, environments, and tools to create non-innocent, frictional access. Mainstream disability technoscience presumes disability as an individual experience of impairment rather than a collective policial experience of world-building and dismantling. This perception has two primary consequences. First, disabled people are perceived to encourage independence. Second, disability and technology are both perceived as apolitical and stable phenomena, rather than material-discursive entanglements that take shape through struggle, negotiation, and creativity."
Aimi Hamraie, Kelly Fritsch, Crip Technoscience Manifesto, 2019
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Crash room = collective in Switzerland
https://crashroom.ooo/
working with translation, overcoming the english-language barrier, they do that in french
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++ alt-text ++
Alt-text = written description of an image (an excercise will follow in the afternoon)
Alt-text is built into the standard of HTML code (the programming language in which web-pages are written):
" />
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(f)oulipo
oulipo=ouvroir de literature potentielle (literary movement that came from France 1960s, mostly male)
foulipo: an attempt to bring feminism to the heritage of oulipo
worked with texts under constraint: write a text without letter m or write on the metro only when it's running
interesting the potential of it is nice, feminst response to it
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Shy Radicals: Hamja Ahsan
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Access Toolkit: Iarlaith Ní Fheorais
https://www.accesstoolkit.art/
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++ drempel ++
de drempel zelfst.naamw. (m.) Uitspraak: [ ˈdrɛmpəl ] Afbreekpatroon: drem·pel Verbuigingen: drempels (meerv.) 1) verhoging op de vloer onder een deur Voorbeeld: 'Val niet over de drempel!' 2) Voorbeeld: 'op de drempel van een nieuwe tijd staan'

EN: threshold self-styled noun (m.) Pronunciation: [ ˈdrɛmpəl ] Abbreviation: drem-pel Inflections: thresholds (plural) 1) elevation on the floor below a door Example: 'Don't fall over the threshold!' 2) Example: 'standing on the threshold of a new age'
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drempel as the obstacle, but also an object that one places to pass over / through (a softening of the border).
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"Collective Engagment" A3 poster Charter / Dutch language
Qr code:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsu5XCLnmj8jEA89A_1AO6Q
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Karina Dukalska: Creatives with Unseen Disabilities
https://www.karinadukalska.com/creatives-with-unseen-disabilities/
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Exhibition at Kolumba https://kolumba.de/
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++never-trust-an-ai++

an attempt to rewrite the introduction to a constant activity:
https://constantvzw.org/site/Workshop-Now-think-of-a-question-that-is-at-stake-for-you,3705.html

old text:

rosa (they, them) is a feminist server that travels between different locations, providing a mobile infrastructure for learning, documentation, and experiments for the meetings that happened during the A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers project. rosa is not only its constituting hardware or software, but also the multitude of relations which are created around the making, maintaining and passing on of this infrastructure: the processes that are performed, the affective charge of their actioning, the communities around them.

the text rewritten today:

rosa (they, them) is a feminist travelling server. Rosa provided a digital space for learning, documentation and experiments for the meetings of the project called A traversal network of feminist servers. rosa is not only a technological device it is also a community with practices of making, maintaining and sharing.

The text rewritten by https://capito.eu

Rosa is a project that travels to different places.
It offers a space for meetings, learning, and trying new things.
The project is part of the A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers.
The space has chocolates, candies, and a soft toy for celebrations.
Rosa is more than just its hardware and software.
It is also about the people who use it and the relationships they create.
These relationships include the processes, emotions, and communities involved.
The users are an important part of Rosa's infrastructure.
They perform actions that affect the technology and the people around them.
Sharing Rosa involves passing it on to others.
These relationships are important for understanding how Rosa works and how it can be improved.
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Two different descriptions were distant but also complementary
one was more on the description of details / on the side of 'objectivity'
the other one was using interpretation by for instance reading the body language...

Important to try to keep a balance between the picture and the text
normally an image will be next to a text that gives the context, there is no point in blowing up the role of the image with full details.. but rather to catch what it is important for that picture in that place..
To support the function of the image in being there.
Still, the reader can skip between elements, so they can choose if they want to hear the whole description of peter's conference setup sitting next to him?

Consider if you have never seen in your life, what could you assume is relevant?

When trying the alt-text, I have the feeling of a need to be "objective"
hangups to write in a contrained way (sense of being inhibiting)
searching a middle-point seems indicative of the kind of work you should aim for.
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not wanting to describe someone in a way that gendering is assumed and enforced.
categorization, representation, interpretation of pictures presents a multiplicity of questions..

at the same time, in the picture of children training, it can be relevant to describe that it is 'white young boys', for the historical normative socialization of training and sport, the separation of genders in schools, etc.
Children vs. boys... importance to signify a culturally specific concept.

When you describe someone you don't know, use -presenting... ie "white-presenting", or "young -presenting", as a means of making (more) clear that it's an interpretation.
you can say 'for my point of view she presents as white'

alt-text as place for "bonus" (a funny question, a little surprise).
I: when the image repeats what is already around in text format, such for example posting flyer, you can also instead add a 'bonus' a joke.
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++Bonus-listening++
Beautiful excerpt of a podcast we were too late to listen
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/713/made-to-be-broken/act-one-11
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