The term ‘disability justice’ was coined by Sins Invalid, a artist collective of queer crips of colour, as a term that reflects paradigms beyond ‘disability rights’. The latter is something I associate with what neoliberal nation-states bestow upon their citizens, rather than recognising the interconnectedness of all peoples under colonial capitalist cisheteropatriarchal ableism. As a disabled migrant who is not allowed access to any UK public funds, ‘disability rights’ has never applied to me here, and when UK citizens call for disability rights, very rarely is thought or advocacy given to those many of us who are migrants and barred from those rights.

The digital Dr Gavin Wallace Fellowship 2021 was a fully online fellowship with Creative Scotland. It was made digital in response to the pandemic and the ongoing lockdowns, but the fact of it being digital was what made it accessible to me in a way that other fellowships had not been. My application for the fellowship was a combination of four science-fiction books that I wanted to write, and how I would use the ‘digital’ and ‘professional development’ aspects of the fellowship for accessibility. There were three main components to that accessibility that I’ll talk about: being based from home entirely online made the fellowship accessible to me in the first place; the support the fellowship offered could be used for accessibility in practical and financial ways; and the training provided through the fellowship could help with increased accessibility (particularly online accessibility) going forwards.