Ruthanna Emrys's Journal

At the Chicago Worldcon I met Kathryn Allan, who has edited a book bridging science fiction criticism with "disability studies" (a whole subdiscipline I hadn't previously known about). SF has run a lot of thought experiments about what disability means and how that might change in the future. and so may be worth the attention of scholars studying disability.

Here's an excerpt from her introduction to Disability in Science Fiction: Representations of Technology as Cure. Here's a review. Here's another.

If you're thinking about such matters, Dr. Allan's blog, Bleeding Chrome, may be of further interest.

(I suppose I should go mention her book over at SF Signal.)