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DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the Ada X HTMlles festival.\n\nPlease reg
 ister on Eventbrite. Everyone who signs up via eventbrite will also be ema
 iled the zoom link 3 days before the event\, again 1 day before the event\
 , and 15 minutes before the event. You need to register on eventbrite for 
 the zoom link.\n\nDr. Ashley Stew will talk about her book Against Technoa
 belism. This presentation will be followed with an audience Q and A.\n\nAg
 ainst Technoableism is a manifesto exploding what we think we know about d
 isability\, and arguing that disabled people are the real experts when it 
 comes to technology and disability.\n\nWhen bioethicist and professor Ashl
 ey Shew became a self-described “hard-of-hearing chemobrained amputee with
  Crohn’s disease and tinnitus\,” there was no returning to “normal.” Sudde
 nly well-meaning people called her an “inspiration” while grocery shopping
 \, or viewed her as a needy recipient of technological wizardry. Most disa
 bled people don’t want what the abled assume they want—nor are they genera
 lly asked. Why do abled people frame disability as an individual problem t
 hat calls for technological solutions\, rather than a social one?\n\nIn a 
 warm\, feisty\, opinionated voice and vibrant prose\, Shew shows how we ca
 n create better narratives and more accessible futures by drawing from the
  insights of the cross-disability community. For the future is surely disa
 bled—whether through changing climate\, new diseases\, or even through spa
 ce travel. It’s time we looked closely at how we all think about disabilit
 y technologies and learn to envision disabilities not as liabilities\, but
  as skill sets enabling all of us to navigate a challenging world.\n\nThis
  event is also part of the 6th Season of Disrupting Disruptions: the Femin
 ist and Accessible Publishing and Communications Technologies Speaker and 
 Workshop Series (https://www.feministandaccessiblepublishingandtechnology.
 com)\, organized by Dr. Alex Ketchum. Our series was made possible thanks 
 to our sponsors: SSHRC\, Digital Citizen Research\, the Institute for Gend
 er\, Sexuality\, and Feminist Studies (IGSF)\, the DIGS Lab\, Milieux\, In
 itiative for Indigenous Futures\, ReQEF\, and more (see our website!)\n\n 
 \n\nThere is no fee required to attend this event. It will be professional
 ly live captioned.\n\nYou can watch other past events at: https://www.femi
 nistandaccessiblepublishingandtechnology.com/p/videos.html\n\n \n\n \n
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SUMMARY:Dr. Ashley Shew on Against Technoableism (Virtual Event)
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/igsf/channels/event/dr-ashley-shew-against-techno
 ableism-virtual-event-353748
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