This article interrogates the limits and possibilities of interference as methodology and metaphor in video-based research aiming to disrupt ableist understandings of disability that create barriers to health care. We explore the overlapping terrain of diffractive and interference methodologies, teasing apart the metaphorical-material uses and implications of interference for video-makers in our project. Using the digital/multimedia stories created and an interview as research artifacts, we illuminate how interference manifested in disabled makers’ lives, how interference operated through the research apparatus, and how the videos continue to hold agency through their durability in the virtual realm. Drawing on feminist post-philosophies of matter (Barad) and use (Ahmed), we argue that the videos disrupt the gaze that fetishizes disabled bodies, thereby interfering with cultural-clinical processes that abnormalize disability. The research apparatus interfered with makers’ subjectivities yet also brought people together to generate something new—a community that creates culture and contests its positioning as marginal.

本文探讨了在基于视频的研究中将干扰作为方法论和隐喻的局限性和可能性，旨在打破残障人士对造成医疗障碍的残疾的理解。我们探索了衍射和干涉方法的重叠领域，在我们的项目中梳理了隐喻材料的使用和干涉对视频制作者的影响。使用创建的数字/多媒体故事和采访作为研究成果，我们阐明了干扰如何体现在残疾创客的生活中，干扰如何通过研究设备运作，以及视频如何通过其在虚拟领域的持久性继续保持代理。借鉴女权主义后物质哲学（巴拉德）和使用（艾哈迈德），我们认为这些视频扰乱了迷恋残疾人身体的凝视，从而干扰使残疾异常的文化-临床过程。研究机构干扰了创客的主观性，但也将人们聚集在一起以产生新的东西——一个创造文化并挑战其边缘地位的社区。