Price discusses how requesting accommodations is a time and resource consuming process - employees often have to prove their disabilities over an over again through methods including tests, medical records, or physical demonstrations. This process of proof itself is resource intensive often requiring payment of doctors or degregation of one's bodymind to show a level of symptoms that are legible to non-disabled individuals. Additionally when accommodations are granted bureaucratic delays often prevent them from being put into place right away leading to a time where employees are expected to use their own resources to accommodate themselves. Once the accommodation is in place often the burden is put on the employee or student to coordinate the usage and enforcement of their accommodation.

Employees Uses Own Resources - Accommodations Loop

Price notes that Time Sensitive Access Needs and Slow Systems were put on the same curve of the loop because they are intertwined phenomenon. Sometimes accommodations need to be put in place immediately to allow work to continue and prevent harm, especially when an access barrier abruptly arises, but this is often at odds with an slow bureaucratic process around accommodations.

Slow System and Time Sensitive Access Needs

The center of the accommodations loop, the fulcrum, is noted by Price as representing a well-worn point that disabled academics will pass through many times in traversing the accommodations loop but also as a obscuring point where the institution no longer perceives the labour that happens from the employee to self accommodate.

Fulcrum in the Accommodations Loop

Price offers the framing of the Accommodations Loop as a predictable pattern that came forward in interviews around the intertwining of time and accommodations in academia. The Accommodations Loop is made up of five concrete experiences and events: Time-sensitive needs;, Slow system, Emotional cost, Employee uses own resources, and Employee may leave job. In formatting this loop as a figure eight Price signals that these are not discrete or linear events rather disabled academics are in constant travel through these events.

University of Wisconsin - Madison

The subcodes Price included under time were:
- Academic clock 
- Conditional time 
- Duration of disability or illness
- Duration of obtaining accommodation(s)
- Duration of using accommodation(s)
- Flexibility
- Pace
- Planning ahead
- Redistribution of course load or work duties
- Repetition/frequency
- Single chance for something
- Stamina
- Suddeness
- Time of day
- Time off during the workday
- Time off (longer term)
- Unpredictability
- Time - Other

Time Subcodes

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

Crip Spacetime

The term academic clock generally refers to the time it is expected, for white male non-disabled students, faculty, or academic staff, to reach a point in their academic career - for instance the tenure clock, which is the policy in most universities that a tenure-track professor is up for tenure review seven years after the start their job at that university, or the time it is expected a student will take to earn their degree. Not abiding by an academic clock can have real consequences - having to take out more in student loans, having a poor tenure review, or being seen as less than peers.

Academic Clock

Conditional time is the idea that if x happens then y will happen. 

Conditional Time

Price points out that, in understanding space as political-relational, space is inseparable from time and relations. Price also notes that this inseparability relates to materialist rhetorics and the idea that space is relational if we are not centering humans or animals as the only beings with animacy and agency.

Space as Political-Relational and Time

Price proposes that the interaction between time and disability, in particular expectations set around time by academic institutions, can cause harm in various ways and that these harms are rarely perceived by those not experiencing these harms or not until a disaster occurs

Harms of Time

Slow Professoring, introduced by Maggie Bergs and Barbara K. Seeber, is a proposed way of asserting Crip Spacetime and Crip Time within academic spaces that often punish slowness by centering deliberation and slowness over acceleration in academic work.

Slow Professoring

Accommodations Loop

Ambient uncertainty can also occur across time; for instance, previous marginalizing experiences can lead to the perception of a consistent risk of that marginalization occuring again. Alternatively, previous marginalization (for instance, not being accommodated at work) can lead to more marginalization (for instance, experiencing poverty).

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