Disability
Thoughts on disability from a variety of places
Disability
the historical origin of disability was “anything that kept people from participating in labor”).
Ashley Shew • Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement (A Norton Short)
looking closely at how different ecosystems are defined as impaired based on “intended use,” we can find that, as with legislative definitions of human disability in the US, the inability to work, to be able to labor and produce capital, is essential for how and when ecosystems are defined as impaired in US policy.
Sunaura Taylor • Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert
I had a writing and money-making practice that allowed me to be disabled. This was a miracle.
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha • The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs
In America, losing a job means making a hundred phone calls to a state unemployment-insurance system. Getting hit by a car means becoming your own hospital-billing expert. Having a disability means launching into a Jarndyce v. Jarndyce–type legal battle. Needing help to feed a toddler means filling out a novel-length application for aid.
The Atlantic • The Time Tax
Today, many of our ideas about able-bodiedness and disability come from classifications based on who is suitable for plantation or factory work: we call people “disabled” when they can’t perform “normal” amounts of physical labor.
Ashley Shew • Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement (A Norton Short)
Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement (A Norton Short)
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