In the midst of a pandemic, I’m committed to serving my students and colleagues best – in their health and lives and community – by teaching online for Fall 2020. I’m encouraging other instructors to do the same, when their universities allow (and to protest with them when their universities do not). There are lots…

“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…

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…

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…

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…

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