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7 Women of Color Activists Who Are Making History
Women of color activists are relying on collaboration as a leadership model for progress.
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Already Whole: How Hollywood’s Biggest Hits Shut Out Disability
Disability discrimination is deeply ingrained in the fabric of our society and almost universally enforced by the stories we tell in the media we gleefully consume.
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The Fragility of Body Positivity: How a Radical Movement Lost Its Way
Focusing on feelings, clothing, and empowerment doesn’t combat discrimination.
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Popaganda: Designing for Democracy
Political observers often blame people for not voting. But we don’t often stop to examine what barriers keep people from voting—or make them feel like it’s not worthwhile. On this episode, we examine our democracy as a design problem—and explore what structural issues are built... Read more »
Biopower to the People: Fitness Trackers Are Redefining What It Means to Be a Human Subject
Order has always been a human ideal—has it become a defining category of a worthy life?
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There Is No “Good Place” For People With Disabilities
If a simple, seemingly painless limp doesn’t exist in heaven, do people with disabilities?
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Beyond Binaries and Convention: Kay Ulanday Barrett on Ancestry, Disability, and Identity Formation
I am not interested in having white Americans take my family’s tongue and practices for some poetic getaway.
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Sing a New Song: Trump’s National Anthem is Not About Allegiance
After we engage in battles about the National Anthem, patriotism, and cheering LeBron’s “U bum” retort, it’s imperative to drag Trump, Trump supporters, local representatives, and our community back into the fray that Trump so desperately evades.
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More Than Our Machines: Aesthetics and Prosthetics in Sci-Fi Film
In the future, you can lose all your limbs and remain enfranchised.
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Human Subjects: Should We Rely on Technology for Transcendence?
For the diehard technophiliac, the true calling of implants and cybernetics is to create a human no longer wracked by the vicissitudes of their own flesh.
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