SF 101: A Guide to Teaching and Studying Science Fiction

considering the material conditions and kind of body that is being “left behind.”

Any group that cannot negotiate a place for itself in the imagined future is already obsolete”

disability not as an individual defect but as the product of social injustice,

approach disability “as something to think with rather than about” because “disability is mimetic.

cultural sidelining—theoretically and practically—of people with disabilities in the academic engagement with genre;

aura of deficiency and lack

obsessed with disability as it is with space travel

Disability studies does not treat disease or disability, hoping to cure or avoid them; it studies the social meanings, symbols, and stigmas attached to disability identity and asks how they relate to enforced systems of exclusion and oppression,

SF has long commented on what characteristics determine a “quality human being;”