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Denise and Academic Conferences
Price notes how Denise, a blind professor, when attending one of her first large academic conferences, had to spend lots of energy trying to navigate around people in busy hallways or engage in small informal networking situations, so she decided she was going to have her husband come with her to future conferences. Denise noted that she preferred her husband because the rushed pace of the conference didn't lend itself toward asking for help from a conference organizer, using paid assistants increased the likelihood she experienced infantilization, and her husband was able to identify people Denise knew she needed to network with informally in a way a paid aid might not be able to. Price notes that Denise's experience shows how, while a conference building could be physically accessible, time and accompaniment can overlap to create crip spacetime and ways of inaccess that are not perceptible to non-disabled conference organizers.
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