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Care Tactics | Laura Mauldin
These low-tech adaptations were the evidence of deep attention and human care, to an advanced degree that’s as intimate as care can be. A mixed ecology of life with machines and care is what makes the independence here work.
Sara Hendren • What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World
It is an attack on the cruel idea that work confers dignity and therefore that people who don’t work—the old, the disabled—lack value. On the contrary, dignity is intrinsic to all human beings, and in designing a work regime rigged for the profit of the few and the exhaustion of the many, we have failed to honor one another’s humanity.
The Baffler • The New Neurasthenia
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There seems to be less discussion or interest in funding technologies that are supposed to make life easier if you are experiencing disability. Say, new ways or spaces to build community if you’re isolated or elderly, or somehow make the world and your life more accessible than it otherwise would be if you’re disabled.
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Who Gets to Live Forever? A Conversation about Biotechno-solutionism with Tamara Kneese and Santiago Sanchez
For people with intellectual disabilities, Trent writes, the means of care—segregated or inclusive classrooms, institutions or group home residences—has so often been collapsed to become the unquestioned end in itself, because the larger assumption remains unexamined.
Sara Hendren • What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World
Assistance, dependence, vulnerability: these embodied experiences have the dignity of the truly human about them. They create networks of caregiving that sustain us all.
Sara Hendren • What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World
The report expresses a long-held insight articulated in the scholarly field of disability studies: that ability and disability may be in part about the physical state of the body, but they are also produced by the relative flexibility or rigidity of the built world, its capacity to bend or adapt in a dance with bodies in a range of states and stage
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Many of us want futures where disabled people don’t have to be pushed to normalize our mere-difference in order to make ourselves palatable enough—“includeable,” to use sociologist Tanya Titchkosky’s term.