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My Body Is Used to Design Military Tech by Britt H. Young

#s:disability #t:article/essay | The prosthetics industry and military have a long history that doesn’t serve most people with limb difference. It’s time for a justice-oriented approach.

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The Bionic-Hand Arms Race by Britt H. Young

#s:disability #t:article/essay | The prosthetics industry is too focused on high-tech limbs that are complicated, costly, and often impractical

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Madness belongs to the people by Jody Chan

#s:disability #s:madness #s:palestine #t:article/essay | In a world where a massacre and a Super Bowl are broadcast side by side, madness isn’t the exception; to be Mad is to refuse a reality in which such grotesque brutality is normalized.

5 months ago | View Shared by zeiat

The Total Package by Britt H. Young

#s:disability #s:trans #t:article/essay | The designs of hyperrealistic prosthetics—whether they’re arms or cocks—originate from a premise of lack. Dysphoria is the overwhelming, bodily experience of that lack. The quest for the bionic penis is predicated on providing that missing piece; it may mean the universe for countless people out there yearning to fill that hole. But in every quest to recreate the human body, there’s another opportunity to make something new.

7 months ago | View Shared by zeiat

Last Resorts by Cassandra Kislenko

#s:disability #s:eugenics #s:maid #t:article/essay | “So now the state appears generous to provide mercy from the austerity that they actively designed.”

1 year ago | View Shared by zeiat

BODY OF WORK

#s:bodies #s:disability #t:article/essay | In 2012, an MRI scan revealed a cerebellar lesion on Katie Lew’s brain; reflecting on the aftermath of the doctors’ diagnoses, she challenges the traditional narrative of recovery from disability

2 years ago | View Shared by zeiat

Miles Vorkosigan and “Excellent Life Choices”: (Neuro)Divergence and Decision-Making in Bujold’s Vorkosigan Saga

#f:vorkosigan #s:disability #t:article/essay | Making good life choices is hard. Making good life choices when you’re neurodivergent is damn hard. Perhaps the most relatable and engaging such struggle I’ve read is that of Miles Vorkosigan, from Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan Saga.

2 years ago | View Shared by zeiat

Care without institutions

#s:disability #s:mutualaid #s:sowk #t:article/essay | Government programs, non-profit organizations, and institutions often fail to meet disabled peoples’ needs, especially undocumented migrants or those who haven’t been formally labelled as disabled. People frequently assume that disabled people can only get their needs met by institutions like long-term care facilities, hospitals, and clinics. But we can often meet our needs more directly outside of institutions through networks of care and mutual aid. This article explores four case studies of successful care for disabled people provided in the community.

2 years ago | View Shared by zeiat

McSWEENEY’S 64 - The Audio Issue

#s:disability #t:article/essay | The Audio Issue

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My Spirit Burns Through This Body

#s:disability #t:article/essay | This disability is invisible in me, pain clenched in my molars like a tight secret.

3 years ago | View Shared by zeiat

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