Technology and Disability

Category: Mars

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • Disabled People in Space – Becoming Interplanetary

    A note: I had the great pleasure of participating in a panel discussion as part of the Becoming Interplanetary Event at the Kluge Center of the Library of Congress I’m still buzzing from the amazing range of new ideas and cool stuff that this meant. The event consisted of 3 panels and 3 performances. The amazing…

  • Technoableism, Cyborg Bodies, and Mars

    I’ve been tweeting for the @WeAreDisabled this week, and I worked my way to talking about tech (and not just disability issues) today. The thread where I briefly lay out my own current work is here: @ashleyshoo on @WeAreDisabled. I am copying the text below for two reasons: (1) this seems like a blog post…