Going through the Portal: Permeable walls and immersive community engagements rooted in disability justice

This chapter considers Deaf, Mad, and Crip futures and the possibility of speculative fiction to open portals in gallery and museum spaces that allow for a different set of conditions and rules of engagement there. By using speculative fiction as a strategy for dreaming up freer worlds, we can begin to prefigure these new communities and begin to live as if we are already there. Through a close reading of three exhibition projects, Random Access Memory, Antarctica, and MBL Freedom, this chapter offers insights into ways of moving disability justice into our everyday creation practices.