Disability Visibility
“Hyper-individualism turns feelings of low self-esteem and difficulty finding romance into a personal responsibility: if it’s a personal responsibility for you to learn to love yourself, then society is now off the hook,” they say. The solution, of course, is not to strive toward true codependency but interdependency, something disability justice a... See more
i-D • Unpacking our generational fear of codependency
Keely Adler added
What a notion—that the universalizing experience of disability, states of dimensional dependence from our infancy through the end of life, might be the central fact of having a body, or rather being a body.
Sara Hendren • What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World
A humane and mind-opening look at people's creativity, paired with a trenchant call for others—and the systems we all create—to recognize it and support them. “The failure to see disabled people as creative, collective forces worthy of our attention means that they’re left to make life work in a way that’s mostly invisible. Recognizing the creativi... See more
Laura Mauldin • Care Tactics | Laura Mauldin
Brian Sholis added
This solidaristic imagination is born not of individualism, but of interdependence, what disability studies scholar Rosemarie Garland-Thomson calls inclusive world-building. “I am because we are, we are because I am,” goes the South African philosophy of ubuntu. This is more than “accommodating” people’s differences on the edges. It requires recogn
... See moreRuha Benjamin • Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
Sit with this idea for a moment. So many of our stories about technology and disability are about technologies as redemptive, as having the power to normalize disabled people, to make us “overcome” our disabilities. They show us “better” living through technology, where better means something pretty specific in how people exist in the world. But so
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