Cripping Collaboration Science Fiction and the Access to Disability Worlds

Inclusive participatory approaches strive to make participants with mild intellectual disabilities (MID) co-researchers. However, academic stan-dards of knowledge production and the need for cognitive skills can complicate collaboration. I argue that collaboration with people with disabilities is not about efforts of inclusion, but instead, it is our meth-odologies that need to be “cripped.” This means moving away from the ideal of inclusion, toward a more interdependent and relational under-standing of access and collaboration. This multimodal article shows how my “research subject” Olof and I explored this way of working together by describing the coproduction of the science-fiction film “O."