Sublime

Many of us want futures where disabled people don’t have to be pushed to normalize our mere-difference in order to make ourselves palatable enough—“includeable,” to use sociologist Tanya Titchkosky’s term.

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

Technoableism is a belief in the power of technology that considers the elimination of disability a good thing, something we should strive for. It’s a classic form of ableism—bias against disabled people, bias in favor of nondisabled ways of life.3 Technoableism is the use of technologies to reassert those biases, often under the guise of empowerme