You're raising some really good points here, and you're definitely making me think.
I think that one thing that is probably way under-explored in terms of portraying disability in Sci-Fi, is, if you want to portray a Utopian society, why not incorporate a social model of disability, in which disability is not erased, but in which technology and social innovations increase access, etc, so that PWD are more able to make the choice to be visible and active members of a society that is not defined, by default, as abled.
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Date: 2010-06-05 10:55 am (UTC)You're raising some really good points here, and you're definitely making me think.
I think that one thing that is probably way under-explored in terms of portraying disability in Sci-Fi, is, if you want to portray a Utopian society, why not incorporate a social model of disability, in which disability is not erased, but in which technology and social innovations increase access, etc, so that PWD are more able to make the choice to be visible and active members of a society that is not defined, by default, as abled.