Rights of Passage: The Ethics of Disability Passing and Repercussions for Identity

Woolwine, Sarah H.; Dadlez, E. M.

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“…My disability operates at the uncanny valley of passability, a privilege that allows me to put efforts into assuming a non-disabled identity strategically as a matter of safety or protection in a fundamentally ableist world (cf. Woolwine and Dadlez, 2016). 12 Additionally, I draw from a perspective as a trans and disabled scholar; hence, how this approach might relate to cis disabled people remains an open question.…”

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Transreal tracing: Queer-feminist speculations on disabled technologies

Spiel

2022

Feminist Theory

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In a world where technologies often serve to amplify the persistent rendering of disability as an undesired deficit, what we need are empowering utopias concerning bodies, disabilities and assistive technologies. Specifically, I use Barad's article ‘Transmaterialities: Trans*/Matter/Realities and Queer Political Imaginings’ to illustrate how we might speculate on technologies that understand disabled bodies as affording potentials. The Transreal Tracing Device reimagines our bodies as surfaces of possibility, encouraging explorations into how disabled bodies do and could look like. The speculative device offers an opportunity for positive renegotiations of disabled bodies as malleable and desirable – as ontologically indeterminate and transcendent. In traversing theoretical approaches and using them to design queer-feminist utopias centring disabled people, the concept challenges dominant notions of disabilities and assistive technologies alike. I close by discussing implications for ability-based, participatory but even more so self-determined design, and how to shift the focus of disabled technologies towards potential, from support to appreciation, from isolation to kinship and, ultimately, from shame to pride.

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Transreal tracing: Queer-feminist speculations on disabled technologies

Spiel

2022

Feminist Theory

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Transreal Tracing

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2022

Perfekte Körper, Perfektes Leben?

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Katta Spiel widmet sich in diesem Beitrag der Frage wie in einer Welt, in der Technologien oft dazu dienen, Behinderungen persistent als unbegehrliches Defizit zu konzeptualisieren, Technikentwicklung bestärkende Utopien, welche Bezug nehmen auf Körper und assistive Technologien, realisieren können. Konkret nutzt Spiel dazu Karen Barad's Artikel Transmaterialities: Trans*/Matter/Realities and Queer Political Imaginings (2015) um nachzuverfolgen, wie wir über Technologien spekulieren können, die behinderte Körper als Potentiale verstehen. Der spekulative Ansatz bietet Möglichkeiten zur positiven Verhandlung von behinderten Körpern und betrachtet sie als formbar und begehrlich - als ontologisch unbestimmt und transzendent.

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Rights of Passage: The Ethics of Disability Passing and Repercussions for Identity

Cited by 2 publications

References 9 publications

Transreal tracing: Queer-feminist speculations on disabled technologies

Transreal tracing: Queer-feminist speculations on disabled technologies

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