Crip Spacetime

A concept developed by disability-studies scholar Margaret Price to describe the material-discursive reality in which disabled people live according to temporalities and spatialities that remain invisible to privileged groups. Crip spacetime names the significant extra effort disabled people must expend — waiting for accommodations, managing fluctuating capacity, navigating bureaucratic delays, translating one's needs into institutional language — to secure spatial, visual, or temporal access. It is a useful lens for designing accessibility systems that do not assume the non-disabled body's temporal and spatial norms.