Schedule of Readings

****Note: this is a preliminary schedule and the last few weeks of the class I have left flexible. Expect changes, especially after the first few weeks. I will update this page as we go through the semester.****

Class starts Tuesday, August 26th. Our first class — Disorientation:

• Harriett McBryde Johnson’s p. 38-41 from Accidents of Nature, 
• Emily Ladau’s “The Complexities of Curing Disabilities,” 
• Stella Young’s TEDx Talk
• Lynn Manning’s “Magic Wand”

August 28: Introduction

•  Judith Butler’s Walk with Sunaura Taylor,
•  Sylvia Yee’s “People with Disabilities Should Not Be Defined by Technologies They Do or Don’t Use,”
• Harriet McBryde Johnson’s_Too Late to Die Young Last Chapter

September 3: The Crux: Fixed: Watch on Canopy prior to class.

September 5: Student one-on-one meetings – No class

September 10: Infrastructure

• Rose Eveleth’s The Limits of Empathy 
• Bess Williamson’s “Electric Moms and Quad Drivers” (CANVAS > FILES)
• Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s “Becoming Disabled”

September 12: Infrastructure and Identity: SUBMIT ADVENTURE PLANS

• Corbett O’Toole’s Fading Scars Chapter 9 (CANVAS > FILES)
• Bill Peace’s Letter #3
• Stephen Kuusisto’s Letter #4 
• Imani Barbarin’s “Things I’ve Learned in this Black Female Body.”

September 17: Audism & Deafness

• “Stop Sharing Those Feel-Good Cochlear Implant Stories”
• Sara Novic’s A Clearer Message on Cochlear Implants

September 19 Audism & Deafness

• Optional: Harlan Lane’s “The Construction of Deafness” (CANVAS)
• Brenda Bruggeman’s “On (Almost) Passing” (CANVAS)

September 24: Amputees and Prostheses

• Raman Srinivasan’s “Technology Sits Cross-Legged” (full paper posted on CANVAS)
• ***Newly added: selected poems from Jillian Weise’s Cyborg Detective (CANVAS)
• Optional: Donna Walton’s “What’s a Leg Got to Do With it?” 

September 26: Amputees and Prostheses:

• Catherine Campbell’s “Giving up a 3-D Printed Prosthetic for a Different Vision of Perfect” 
• Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s “Hands” (CANVAS)
• Jen Lee Reeves’s “Prosthetics Do Not Change Everything”

October 1: Blindness and Technologies with Guest Christa Miller of Accessible Technologies

• Blindness–The Myth and the Image  by Kenneth Jernigan (1970) 
• short video by Tommy Edison, How A Blind Person Uses a Computer

October 3: Vision and Blindness

• Class was cancelled this day.

October 8: Eugenics and Institutionalization and Contemporary Abuse

• Intro from Adam Cohen’s Imbeciles (CANVAS)
• Nathaniel Comfort’s The Science of Human Perfection Epilogue (CANVAS)
• David Perry’s “We’re Failing Our Test Run for CRISPR”
• #AutisticWhileBlack The Sacrifice of Andre and Cheryl McCollins

October 10: Eugenics and Institutionalization

October 15: Discriminatory Research into Technological Interventions with Guest Lecture by Rua Williams

• Singleton, Warren, and Piersel 2014 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6943709
• Zakaria, Davis, and Walker 2015 https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2930674.2930693Torrado, Gomez, and Montoro 2017 https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/17/6/1359
• Rua’s Cyborg paper: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3290607.3310421

October 17: Neurodiversity, Community, and Action

• Excerpt from Melanie Yergeau’s Authoring Autism (CANVAS)
• Julia Bascom’s “Quiet Hands” (CW: abuse, forced compliance)
• Amy Sequenzia’s “Normalcy is an Ableist Concept”
• “ABA” by Sparrow Rose (CW: abuse)
• “Why I Left ABA” by Anxious Advocate (CW:abuse)

//ADAPT on the Judge Rotenberg Center and ADAPTers tweet with the hashtags #stoptheshock and #ADAPTandRESIST.

October 22: Disability Accessibility Laws / Civil Rights Legislation

• David Laposky tours new Ryerson University (Canada) building
• ADA Title II Primer 
• ADA Checklist for Existing Facilities
•  Bill Peace’s Letter #4 

October 24: Service Dogs: Guest Discussant Hanna Herdegen

• Excerpt from Stephen Kuusisto (CANVAS)
• A collection of twitter threads

October 29: Sports 

• Murderball 1
• Corbett O’Toole’s “Court Crips” (CANVAS)

October 31: Arts: Guest Discussant Mallory Kay Nelson, Disability Design Specialist 

• Nelson et al., “Transmobility”
• Jillian Weise’s “Common Cyborg”
• Optional: Sobchack (CANVAS)

November 5: Disability Sports & Arts – Part 2, carryover from prior week 

• Murderball 2
• Additional Sports coverage: A sampling here: We’re the Superhumans (Rio 2016), Rights Not Games Response, Adweek Coverage with Clips form individuals in the video.  Also check out recent Toyota ads.

November 7: Genes and Futures

•  HMJ’s “Unspeakable Conversations”
• Optional:
• Chris Kaposky’s “Do We Really Need An Even Better Screening Test for Down
• Katie Booth’s “What I learned…”
• Alice Wong’s MEDx talk

November 12: Electronic Visit Verification and Disabled Freedoms: Guest: Dominick Evans and Damien Williams

• Dominick Evans on EVV

November 14: Disability Futurity + Presentation (DK)

November 19: Presentation (CN) + Accessibility

November 21: ADA Survey Sharing Day

December 3: Presentations (SM, NC, LH, PW, A&R)

December 5: Book Appointments – NO CLASS

December 10: Last Day of Class: Reflection Day: What is the relationship between disability and technology? + Reading from Care Work

December 14: QUIZ 2 DUE

 

Additional Unit – Potential if we have time, but listed for student interest: Exoskeletons: Zoltan Istvan’s “In the Transhumanist Age, We Should Be Repairing Sidewalks, Not Disabilities” + Replies to this article – students should pick one of these to read: Rose Eveleth’s “The Hidden Burden of Exoskeletons for the Disabled” + Kim Sauder’s “When Celebrating Accessible Technology Reinforces Ableism”  + Emily Ladau’s “Fix Discriminatory Attitudes, Not Sidewalks”