Technology and Disability

Author: techanddis

  • Thinking About New Access Statement for Syllabus

    “Disability rights are civil rights, and disabled people fought hard to secure the rights to your accommodations in the classroom. Those people who fought for your accommodations were spit on, arrested, isolated, and dismissed, but they wouldn’t take less than they deserve when it came to securing your rights to be in this classroom and…

  • Disability as Dirty Work

    Hanna Herdegen, the current graduate research assistant for the NSF grant associated with this site, authored this blog post on the Maintainers website. It’s themes are close at heart to the work of Technology & Disability – and very worth the read! Some highlights: Goffman’s discussion of stigma helps to illustrate the consequences of being…

  • Disabled People In Space, Commercial Spaceflight Edition

    I was quoted in this Space.com article about health risks for commercial spaceflight. I want to add: Painting very specific and culturally informed ideas of what constitutes an ideal body as what we should seek for space travelers simply doesn’t hold when we’re talking about about space flight and space travel – since none of…

  • Stop Depicting Technology As Redeeming Disabled People

    The great editors at Nursing Clio published a recent article from me last week called “Stop Depicting Technology as Redeeming Disabled People.”https://nursingclio.org/2019/04/23/stop-depicting-technology-as-redeeming-disabled-people/ This one has “the corn story” for people that know the reference. 😀 I owe a great debt of gratitude to the NC editorial team, Dr. David Perry, and Dr. Melanie Kiechle for…

  • Crip Technoscience Issue

    Catalyst has published a special CRIP TECHNOSCIENCE issue, a must read for Tech&Dis-interested folks. I’ve been waiting for the Fritsch-Hamraie “Crip Technoscience Manifesto” to come out for over a year. I might also draw your attention to a book review of Bodyminds Reimagined by Sami Schalk, written by STS PhD Candidate Joshua Earle. (More work…

  • Becoming Interplanetary Webcast Available

    The webcast (with transcript!) of the sessions from the Becoming Interplanetary event are now online, here on the Library of Congress page.

  • Curiosity: Vancouver’s Straw Ban – Another Barrier and Another Excuse For Non-Disabled People to Shame, Marginalize, Interrogate and Demonstrate They Don’t Care About Discrimination Against Disabled People

  • Disabled People in Space, more things

    The stream of the Becoming Interplanetary event at the Library of Congress is now online (with transcript!), so, for those interested, here is the link to the stream of Becoming Interplanetary. The journalist Rose Eveleth (from the paper we read “The Hidden Burden of Exoskeletons for the Disabled”) published an article in WIRED that features…

  • Disabled People in Space

    Journalist Rose Eveleth (of “The Hidden Burden of Exoskeletons” we read in T&D class) just published an article in WIRED about disabled people in space – this includes interviews with the Gallaudet Eleven’s David Myers, the Disability Visibility Project’s Alice Wong (from the MedEx talk we view), and Disability Designer Mallory K. Nelson (with the…

  • Silicon Republic Interview

    Silicon Republic interviewed me about technology & disability and the work we do. They accurately quoted me: “Ableism is the sauce we’re all marinated in,” so basically my career has peaked. 😀 Here is the URL: https://www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/ashley-shew-disability-research-virginia-tech