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The session presented some of the core themes of WEIRD about how disability and queer perspectives can broaden the horizons of sustainability scholarship and practice. It showed how these perspectives can support more transformative methodologies and ethics for sustainability research.
Drawing on disability and queer studies, Guido Caniglia and Sasha Kosanic first introduced crip time and queer time as alternatives to dominant temporal norms focused on linear progress, urgency, and productivity. These temporalities expose the ableist and cis-heteronormative assumptions embedded in how sustainability research often structure work, expectations, and futures.
Through individual reflection and small-group conversations, attendees considered how adopting these alternative temporalities might reshape their own research and action practices, whether by resisting productivist pressures, rethinking the tempo of research, or creating more equitable forms of collaboration. They explored how crip time invites emphasizing flexibility, pauses, and care, by foregrounding the non-linear rhythms shaped by access needs and bodily realities. Through queer time, in turn, participants were invited to challenge normative life trajectories and to open space for fragmented, cyclical, or unexpected futures as well as for grief and failure.
Together, disability and queer temporalities offered new and critical ways to imagine more inclusive and just approaches to transformation research and action.
This article was written by the PI of the WEIRD project Guido Caniglia.