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Remote Access Party

A Crip Nightlife Gathering

Video Description: Remote Access trailer, created for Imagining America “Stories of Change” series.

Remote Access is a crip nightlife event curated and designed by the Critical Design Lab. This project considers parties and crip nightlife events as designed spaces, with opportunities for playful and participatory ways of producing access as a collective cultural practice.

Disabled people have long used remote access as a method for organizing pleasure and kinship.  We call forth our community for an afternoon and evening of pleasure activism through crip nightlife praxis and #CripRitual. DJ Who Girl (Kevin Gotkin) will provide the tunes, our team (and you) will all create access to the experience together as an act of love.

To get involved with organizing or access doula-ing, email us at aimi.hamraie@vanderbilt.edu or kevin.gotkin@gmail.com.

Participation Guide

The Remote Access party participation guide is available on this Google Doc. Please feel free to use it for your own party! And please cite the guide if you use it.

Preferred citation: Kevin Gotkin, Louise Hickman, Aimi Hamraie, with the Critical Design Lab, “Remote Access: Crip Nightlife Participation Guide,” March 2020, bit.ly/RemoteAccessPartyGuide

Social Media

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and check out #RemoteAccessParty and #CripRitual.

Past Events

  • Inaugural Remote Access Party (March 22, 2020) - with DJ Who Girl/Kevin Gotkin and art by Yoyo Lin‍
  • Society for Disability Studies  conference dance (April 5, 2020)