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

when scholars make arguments about the representation of disability in SF, they must also be cognizant to not ignore or discount the lived realities of people with disabilities.

repeated instances of the erasure,

Impairment itself,

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

Vulnerability is positioned, then, as that which impairs agency in the ‘damaged’ other while inspiring moral action on the part of the secure self to make good the perceived lack”

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,

also a normative construct—as bodily or cognitive difference should not be equated with the sense of deficiency that attends the word—

obsessed with disability as it is with space travel