Disability is inherent in the human condition
I’m doing a close reading of a new book called Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement by Ashley Shew. And I’m keeping my notes in a longer, live-read blog post on this very site.
One of the core ideas that keeps coming up is that “Disability is inherent in the human condition.” It’s a thought that helps me re-frame what disability actually means as I do a little volunteer work on a local accessibility committee.
Sometimes disability is a technical or medical challenge. But the ways disabled people suffer needlessly also have a lot to do with the social problem: the world is set up to exclude them.
Also, the quote of the day is from Chapter 4. “Technology cannot transcend the meatsack.”