Reimagining time will help employers better support workers with disabilities
Julia Dobrowolskitheconversation.com
Reimagining time will help employers better support workers with disabilities
disability not as an individual defect but as the product of social injustice,
Karen Hellekson • SF 101: A Guide to Teaching and Studying Science Fiction
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
... See moreAshley Shew • Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement (A Norton Short)
Disability is not, at its heart, a design problem—even if its lived experience requires daily feats of engineering and imagination.
Andrew Leland • The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
I see time to be directly linked to attention. You can fuse with your surroundings (archaic time), lock into one object (magical time/flow/addiction), orient around events, narrative or cycles (mythical time), or obsess over budgeting hours and minutes (rational time). The idea of escaping rational time and realizing “I am time” is liberating, and
... See moreCould we envision a possible future where disability itself isn’t something considered separately?