In their essay Sick Woman Theory, Johanna Hedva writes, “I thought of all the other invisible bodies, with their fists up, tucked away and out of sight.” We will begin with Hedva’s provocation to investigate how dominant organizations of public and social space perpetuate ableism, neurotypicality, and sever the potential of political solidarity. From these critiques, we will study social, political, and artistic spaces that facilitate accessibility, intersectionality, and diverse modes of being. We will consider “space” as a malleable term to include not only physical architecture but communities of political activism, internal mental spaces, and creative practices as vital sites of exploration. This course will be interdisciplinary, enabling experimentation, play, and hybridity across various genres and forms of media. Theory will create a scaffolding to apply to our own experiences and observations of the world around us. We will engage with philosophy, poetry, memoir, sound art, and installation to explore themes such as the social model of disability, universal design, chronic illness, techno-ableism, embodied poetics, and neuro-queerness. These topics will invite questions such as: What is feminist disabled world building? How can language function as a tool to reimagine space? What dynamic relationships can be formed when resisting dominant ideologies of gender, race, and sexuality. We will be guided by the work of writers and makers including: David Wolach, Ashley Shew, Audre Lorde, Nick Walker, Sunaura Taylor, Finnegan Shannon, and JJJJJerome Ellis.