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Case Studies People Activities Readings Quotes Glossary

Glossary

Crip

Pronunciation

Type/Context

Disability-Related Cultural Identity

Short Definition

A word used in disability culture to reclaim the the word "cripple”

Relevance

Challenges ableist structures by framing disability as a source of innovation and knowledge. Often sidelined in mainstream tech spaces, Crip perspectives offer the potential to reshape technology by centering disabled creators and fostering designs rooted in lived experience, not token accessibility fixes.

Additional Notes

Further Reading

Hamraie, A., Lynx, A. A., Smith III, B. J., Brathwaite-Shirley, D., & Decker, N. (2023, November 18). Hybrid Dependencies: Crip Technoscience, Disability Justice, and Intersectionality in New Media and Beyond [Online Panel]. https://interaccess.org/event/2023/hybrid-dependencies-crip-technoscience-disability-justice-and-intersectionality-new-media

American Sign Language (ASL)

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Asubpeeschoseewagong First Nation

Black American Sign Language (BASL)

Black Sign Variation (BSV)

CARFAC (Canadian Artists’ Representation/Le Front des artistes canadiens)

CART Captioning

CMS (Content Management System)

Creative Commons

Crip Technoscience

Disability Justice (DJ)

Dish With One Spoon

Dish With One Spoon Territory

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)

Do-It-Together (DIT)

Etuaptmumk / Two-Eyed Seeing

Inclusive Design

Indigenous accessibility

Indigenous cosmology

Indigenous data

Indigenous data sovereignty (IDS)

Indigenous futurism

Indigenous protocols

Indigenous science

Internet speed test

IoT (Internet of Things)

Oglála Lakȟóta

Participatory Action Research (PAR)

Pedagogy of Peace

Transformative Justice (TJ)

Waqmitkuk (Wagmatcook)

active listening

algorithmic bias

anti-black sanism

anti-oppression

audio description

augmented reality (AR)

change management

This is a 2023–2025 project led by InterAccess, in collaboration with Tangled Art + Disability, and FEZIHAUS™.