SF 101: A Guide to Teaching and Studying Science Fiction

aura of deficiency and lack

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.

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

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

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

A DS reading of prosthetics and other medical modifications in SF must be careful not to idealize the transformative potential of such technologies while neglecting a discussion of the bodies most often targeted for and affected by such interventions.

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

Impairment itself,

repeated instances of the erasure,