Disability is often appealed to as a justification for technological development, and as a moral imperative toward investment in technological research. This is technoableism as Ashley Shew describes it in her book, Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement.
But the story of technology and disability needs to be led by disabled people themselves, and we need a significant shift away from deference to “expertise” that comes from outside of disabled communities. This symposium features a majority of disabled writers reflecting on how we imagine therapy, intervention, and technology.
This symposium is guest edited by Ashley Shew.
Editor-in-Chief: Chloe Reichel