Spaced Apart: Autoethnographies of Access Throughout the COVID 19 Pandemic

Abstract

In this article, we present six autoethnographies of lives marked by crisis that reflect on the issues of access, very broadly defined, that the COVID 19 pandemic has raised or redefined for each of us. As the time of crisis has made access concerns more and more evident it also exposes how access is not an issue just for disabled people, but for all lives. Drawing on recent scholarship in disability studies that critically interrogates access through an intersectional lens, we take this unexpected unveiling as an occasion to further tease out the complexities, ambiguities, and messiness of access.