"Like Alice Through the Looking Glass": II: the Struggle for Accommodation Continues (New FEMINIST RESEARCH / NOUVELLES RECHERCHES Feministes) (Viewpoint Essay‪)‬

This article provides an autoethnographic account of the more recent phase of my ongoing struggles, as a disabled female faculty member at a Canadian university, for my legal rights to reasonable accommodation and freedom from discrimination on the basis of disability. It is a sequel to an article dealing with the early years of my struggles for accommodation, published in this journal [vol. 24, nos. 3/4 (1995/96)]. It focuses on the many social barriers to accommodation, inclusion and equality of rights that I encountered in an academic workplace. These included devaluations of my contributions in the workplace, social and spatial exclusion from events in my academic unit, prolonged systemic salary discrimination. resistance to developing a reasonable accommodation plan and even hostility and punishment for being vocal on accommodation issues and, ultimately, taking legal action against the University. This article not only sheds light on some of the challenges facing disabled women who struggle for accommodation in academic workplaces but also encourages others to share their experiences of struggling for fair and reasonable accommodation. Introduction