Priya, a faculty member with endometriosis reflected on how academic time often was tied with ideas of individuality, for instance Priya completed her doctorate degree within three years, which she reflected was not a sustainable pace, because she learned to accommodate her pain by overworking herself on the weeks she was not in pain. When she became a faculty member she was told that she didn't need to explain her disability because 'her record would speak for itself' despite the fact that she was probably going to have to go on medical leave. Priya ended up taking medical leave and when she came back she applied for a 're-entry grant' from the university she was teaching at, but that grant required that she ceased doing all academic work for a year despite the fact that it was not possible for Priya to cease all academic work because she was on multiple multi-year grants where her stopping would require the entire grant team to stop work on their study. For Priya academic time was compose of not only the present issues with the re-entry grant but also her past experiences in graduate school and the future - the future years of the grants. Priya was also simultaneously told by mentors to create two and four year plans without any discussion of how the unsteadiness of her disability made those plans futile.

Example: Priya and Academic Time

Price uses the term academic time to discuss the rhythms of the workplace of academia - including the timetables of classes and meetings followed by professors and students alongside the nine-to-five schedule followed by academic staff. Academic time also encapsulates practices like the academic clock, sabbatical, tenure, and the temporal breaks that happen with summer and holiday breaks.

Academic Time

Price conceptualizes as Academic Time, which encapsulates how time operates within academic settings, as including the histories of inequality and abuse by academic systems and the uncertain futures of these systems.

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Price discusses that because Crip Futurity, like Queer Futurity, can reinscribe harm, in discussing time was must recogonize harm as a core aspect of time and be accountable to that harm in how we discuss time.

Crip Futurity, Time and Accountability

Price, M. (2024). Crip Spacetime. Duke University Press.

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