The standard narratives about individuals “overcoming” disabilities tokenize certain types of disability while erasing others.

Disabled people are consistently written out of the future, philosopher Kafer (2013) notes, and perceived as having no future. To craft futures in which both realist and nonrealist disabilities are integral to liberatory worlds, then, is to reach for adjacent possibilities otherwise ignored and dismissed. It is to relocate possibility within the va

Because ableism has often been a central feature of conversations around bodily autonomy, reproduction, immigration, education, inclusion, and even public services, and more intensely around additionally minoritized groups, it’s critical to understand disability as both political and relational too.