[Access Lunch] Reading for this Week

[Sara Kingsley]

Hi everyone,

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.

Thank you, Sara





On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 6:33 PM Franchesca Spektor <fspektor at andrew.cmu.edu>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> 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?
>
> These first two essays discuss the frictions of cyborg embodiment, from
> the lived experience of disability:
>
>    - "Common Cyborg" <https://granta.com/common-cyborg/> by Jillian
>    Weise, a poet, performance artist, and activist. (I've shared this essay
>    before but I just love it so much).
>    - "The Danger of Intimate Algorithms" by Laura Forlano, a scholar and
>    design researcher.
>
> 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.
>
>    - "In the Transhumanist Age, We Should be Repairing Disabilities, Not
>    Sidewalks"
>    <https://www.vice.com/en/article/4x3pdm/in-the-transhumanist-age-we-should-be-repairing-disabilities-not-sidewalks>
>    by Zoltan Istvan, an attempted politician and president of the
>    Transhumanist Party.
>
> I'm really looking forward to our discussion and hearing everyone's
> thoughts!
>
> *As always, join us at Accessibility Lunch on Thursday, April 1st at 1:30
> PM EST here. *To access the meeting, please use this Zoom conference
> link:
> https://cmu.zoom.us/j/95170225799?pwd=UkhZWmwwUkp6M3BMR1dsM0taNjNnZz09
>
> Thanks so much, and see y'all soon ~
>
> - Franky
>
>
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-- 
*Sara Kingsley*
PhD student, Human-Computer Interaction Institute
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
website: www.sarakingsley.info
Pronouns: she/her
Create Safe Spaces for Students, Denounce Ableist Language:
https://www.autistichoya.com/p/ableist-words-and-terms-to-avoid.html

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