Internalized ableism is when disabled individuals internalize the idea that people's bodies and minds are assigned value based on being perceived as being non-disabled, or "normal." Often these valuations are based on individuals appearance, their ability to produce work at the volume and capacity that is expected by others, their ability to excel in societally valued settings and their ability to behave in ways that are societally accepted.  

Internalized Ableism

Excludable types incite internalized ableism and make structures of ableism in academia harder to perceive. It is not just that every disabled individual within academia understands and operates within crip spacetime it is that crip spacetime is hard to perceive but  is continuously coming into existence and constituted through agents, objects, spaces and how disabled academics are and others in academia are interacting with them.

Crip Spacetime and Excludable Types

Since being placed as a excludable type shifts the focus to the disabled person experiencing inaccess as the point of inaccess it can lead to individuals questioning whether they are deserving of access to a space, if they are using their accommodations enough, if they are doing enough to 'be less of a burden' - this is a form of internalized ableismm

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In education settings the excludable type is often created through rhetoric around buildings being built prior to the Americans with Disabilities Act standards were codified, the idea that accessible bathrooms or facilities are on different floors or in different buildings, and rhetoric that shifts the focus from the disabled individual experiencing exclusion to administrators who are "doing their best." 

Excludable Types, Disability and Education

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

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