Sublime

But technology—and the normative ideas of what it means to have the correct body or mind—increasingly separates our selves from the bodies with which we encounter the world.

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Technoableism is a particular type of ableism, one that is highly visible in media and entertainment and omnipresent in the ways most people casually talk about technologies aimed at disability. Technologies for disability can never just be “tools that are useful sometimes,” in the phrasing of Jen Lee Reeves. Technoableism is a belief in the power

She calls herself transmobile: in her universe, there’s no one perfect technology, so she has a whole array of technologies she can use in different situations and to fit different needs. She has more choice than most people about how she moves in the world, and I love how she has shifted my perspective on this.

I did not see that I was in good company: an entire culture had been seduced. I understood my blind faith in ambitious, aggressive, arrogant young men from America’s soft suburbs as a personal pathology, but it wasn’t personal at all. It had become a global affliction.