Is This Disability Justice? Hating and Wanting Hyflex
Keywords:
Hyflex; Hybrid; Disability Justice; Choice; Modality; AccessAbstract
This essay examines whether hyflex modalities--loosely defined as being in-person and online/on-Zoom simultaneously--further the goals of disability justice. To do this, I examine a selection of post-pandemic hyflex scholarship, and based on this review, I argue that hyflex: (1) requires curricular and institutional support that is almost always lacking; (2) is falsely premised on “access” and “choice” for students (and not faculty); (3) is deeply stained by the pandemic, and we have not dealt with hyflex’s trauma relations; (4) is/was never about disability justice, and while we may (want to) repurpose it as such, doing so requires us to recognize its neoliberal emphases. Despite these damning critiques, I conclude by questioning my own proclivity for black-and-white thinking and suggest that we are at a precarious impasse with hyflex.
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