<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi everyone,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">I request that we not refer to everyone living with medical assistive technology as a "cyborg." For many of us, it is extraordinarily derogatory, ableist, and those terms have been used by non-disabled people to harass and commit acts of violence against disabled people. I also ask that we consider reading about the history of diabetes technology, the broader community whose lives depend on it before engaging in a discussion of type 1 diabetes. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thank you, Sara</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 6:33 PM Franchesca Spektor <<a href="mailto:fspektor@andrew.cmu.edu">fspektor@andrew.cmu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,<div><br></div><div>For this week's reading, we'll explore the cyborg as the supposed "pinnacle" of assistive technology. Can cyborg technology eliminate disability? Who can afford to become a cyborg? How do these questions come to influence products and policy?</div><div><br></div><div>These first two essays discuss the frictions of cyborg embodiment, from the lived experience of disability:</div><div><ul><li><a href="https://granta.com/common-cyborg/" target="_blank">"Common Cyborg"</a> by Jillian Weise, a poet, performance artist, and activist. (I've shared this essay before but I just love it so much).</li><li><a>"The Danger of Intimate Algorithms"</a> by Laura Forlano, a scholar and design researcher.</li></ul></div><div>If you have time for it, this last essay is a short Vice article from several years ago, which argues that the US should invest into exoskeletons rather than accessible environments. </div><div><ul><li><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/4x3pdm/in-the-transhumanist-age-we-should-be-repairing-disabilities-not-sidewalks" target="_blank">"In the Transhumanist Age, We Should be Repairing Disabilities, Not Sidewalks"</a> by Zoltan Istvan, an attempted politician and president of the Transhumanist Party.</li></ul></div><div><div>I'm really looking forward to our discussion and hearing everyone's thoughts!</div><div><br></div><div><div><strong style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">As always, join us at Accessibility <span>Lunch</span> on Thursday, April 1st at 1:30 PM EST here. </strong>To access the meeting, please use this Zoom conference link: <a href="https://cmu.zoom.us/j/95170225799?pwd=UkhZWmwwUkp6M3BMR1dsM0taNjNnZz09" style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px" target="_blank">https://cmu.zoom.us/j/95170225799?pwd=UkhZWmwwUkp6M3BMR1dsM0taNjNnZz09</a></div></div></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks so much, and see y'all soon ~</div><div><br></div><div>- Franky</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div></div>
_______________________________________________<br>
Accessibility-lunch mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:Accessibility-lunch@lists.andrew.cmu.edu" target="_blank">Accessibility-lunch@lists.andrew.cmu.edu</a><br>
<a href="https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/accessibility-lunch" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/accessibility-lunch</a><br>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><b>Sara Kingsley</b><div>PhD student, Human-Computer Interaction Institute</div><div>School of Computer Science</div><div>Carnegie Mellon University</div><div>Pittsburgh, PA, USA</div><div><div>website:<b> </b><a href="http://www.sarakingsley.info" target="_blank">www.sarakingsley.info</a></div><div>Pronouns: she/her</div><div>Create Safe Spaces for Students, Denounce Ableist Language: <a href="https://www.autistichoya.com/p/ableist-words-and-terms-to-avoid.html" target="_blank">https://www.autistichoya.com/p/ableist-words-and-terms-to-avoid.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><b>want to chat about research, projects or coursework?</b> </div><div>please feel free to schedule time to meet with me at this link, thank you: <a href="https://calendly.com/sarakingsley/schedule" target="_blank">https://calendly.com/sarakingsley/sara-schedule</a></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div>