It cannot be overstated how much everyone, everywhere needs to read @ashleyshoo.bsky.social's work, especially her new book.
You're a technology designer? An architect? A social worker? Psychologist? Educator? Parent? A newly-disabled person? Long-time disabled person? Friends w/ disabled people?…
You're a technology designer? An architect? A social worker? Psychologist? Educator? Parent? A newly-disabled person? Long-time disabled person? Friends w/ disabled people?…
Against Technoableism
Book page for Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
techanddisability.com
October 3, 2023 at 8:03 PM
It cannot be overstated how much everyone, everywhere needs to read @ashleyshoo.bsky.social's work, especially her new book.
You're a technology designer? An architect? A social worker? Psychologist? Educator? Parent? A newly-disabled person? Long-time disabled person? Friends w/ disabled people?…
You're a technology designer? An architect? A social worker? Psychologist? Educator? Parent? A newly-disabled person? Long-time disabled person? Friends w/ disabled people?…
@wolven.blacksky.app have you seen that new Meta commercial about using the pervy glasses as assistive technology for blind and visually impaired veterans?
I feel like we're going to have to have a chat about the intersections of technoableism there and accessibility washing.
I feel like we're going to have to have a chat about the intersections of technoableism there and accessibility washing.
September 18, 2026 at 11:59 AM
@wolven.blacksky.app have you seen that new Meta commercial about using the pervy glasses as assistive technology for blind and visually impaired veterans?
I feel like we're going to have to have a chat about the intersections of technoableism there and accessibility washing.
I feel like we're going to have to have a chat about the intersections of technoableism there and accessibility washing.
And now, bioethicist Ashley Shew is speaking to my heart with her talk: Cyborg Concerns & Disability Services. Her book, Against Technoableism, in which she examines how Silicon Valley speaks over disabled people about disabled futures, and how technology is repeatedly presented as a "fix".
Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who... book by Ashley Shew
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February 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
And now, bioethicist Ashley Shew is speaking to my heart with her talk: Cyborg Concerns & Disability Services. Her book, Against Technoableism, in which she examines how Silicon Valley speaks over disabled people about disabled futures, and how technology is repeatedly presented as a "fix".
It’s my bookaversary — 3 yrs since Against Technoableism launched! Thanks to editors of @wwnorton.com + special shout-out to their art dept for such a fun and fitting cover.
Available in paperback ($12), audiobook, and ebook!
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
Available in paperback ($12), audiobook, and ebook!
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
When bioethicist and professor Ashley Shew became a self-described "hard-of-hearing chemobrained amputee with Crohn's disease and tinnitus," there was no returning to "normal." Suddenly well-meaning p...
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September 19, 2026 at 8:17 PM
It’s my bookaversary — 3 yrs since Against Technoableism launched! Thanks to editors of @wwnorton.com + special shout-out to their art dept for such a fun and fitting cover.
Available in paperback ($12), audiobook, and ebook!
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
Available in paperback ($12), audiobook, and ebook!
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
yeah l recommend @ashleyshoo.bsky.social 's book 👌
Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
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May 15, 2025 at 11:28 AM
yeah l recommend @ashleyshoo.bsky.social 's book 👌
this is where technoableism and capitalism take us.
January 2, 2026 at 5:21 PM
this is where technoableism and capitalism take us.
Or on tech and disability there were things I read, but today you should read @ashleyshoo.bsky.social "against technoableism."
December 19, 2024 at 2:31 AM
Or on tech and disability there were things I read, but today you should read @ashleyshoo.bsky.social "against technoableism."
…Just generally trying to be less crappy in your everyday life and want something funny and incisive and raw to help you understand some deeply, crucially important things to help you get there? Read it.
Against Technoableism
Book page for Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
techanddisability.com
October 3, 2023 at 8:03 PM
…Just generally trying to be less crappy in your everyday life and want something funny and incisive and raw to help you understand some deeply, crucially important things to help you get there? Read it.
Other research material that arrived today.
March 19, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Other research material that arrived today.
Have you read Ashley Shew’s work on “technoableism”
September 18, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Have you read Ashley Shew’s work on “technoableism”
Thesis: LLMs enact for everyone a version of what some disabled people have called 'technoableism' - a redemptive forcing to the norm via technical means, even though the underling idea of 'normal' is an exclusionary, socially-constructed and based ultimately on 'productivity'
April 6, 2026 at 6:59 AM
Thesis: LLMs enact for everyone a version of what some disabled people have called 'technoableism' - a redemptive forcing to the norm via technical means, even though the underling idea of 'normal' is an exclusionary, socially-constructed and based ultimately on 'productivity'
Greatly enjoying @ashleyshoo.bsky.social’s new book Against Technoableism! Can’t wait to cite it in future work. Shangela approves as well. #CripTheVote
November 10, 2023 at 4:21 PM
Greatly enjoying @ashleyshoo.bsky.social’s new book Against Technoableism! Can’t wait to cite it in future work. Shangela approves as well. #CripTheVote
Apologies for the radio silence! We hope to keep the postings here more consistent moving forward. Our next episode will be on Against Technoableism by Ashely Shew! (7/11) #technoableism
July 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Apologies for the radio silence! We hope to keep the postings here more consistent moving forward. Our next episode will be on Against Technoableism by Ashely Shew! (7/11) #technoableism
This week's errand running read, Against Technoableism by @ashleyshoo.bsky.social
April 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
This week's errand running read, Against Technoableism by @ashleyshoo.bsky.social
This from @ashleyshoo.bsky.social’s AGAINST TECHNOABLEISM makes sense to me: “We should always be planning with disability in mind, because disability is an inherent part of having squishy meat bodies.”
March 13, 2024 at 6:30 PM
This from @ashleyshoo.bsky.social’s AGAINST TECHNOABLEISM makes sense to me: “We should always be planning with disability in mind, because disability is an inherent part of having squishy meat bodies.”
Last week at @4sweb, I got the honour of being on a on Disability Access, Infrastructure, & Technoableism panel w/ @chartblay.bsky.social , @ashleyshoo.bsky.social, & Raquel Velho, learning from & speaking w/ them & @disabilitystor1.bsky.social & @besswww.bsky.social, as commenters & interlocutors…
September 7, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Last week at @4sweb, I got the honour of being on a on Disability Access, Infrastructure, & Technoableism panel w/ @chartblay.bsky.social , @ashleyshoo.bsky.social, & Raquel Velho, learning from & speaking w/ them & @disabilitystor1.bsky.social & @besswww.bsky.social, as commenters & interlocutors…
Really enjoying AGAINST TECHNOABLEISM: RETHINKING WHO NEEDS IMPROVEMENT by Ashley Shew
October 17, 2023 at 2:03 PM
Really enjoying AGAINST TECHNOABLEISM: RETHINKING WHO NEEDS IMPROVEMENT by Ashley Shew
Everything sucks so I'm reading an excellent book.
Against Technoableism by @ashleyshoo.bsky.social
Because the future is disabled.
Space, climate change, war, pandemics, old age:
All are disabling.
Against Technoableism by @ashleyshoo.bsky.social
Because the future is disabled.
Space, climate change, war, pandemics, old age:
All are disabling.
February 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Everything sucks so I'm reading an excellent book.
Against Technoableism by @ashleyshoo.bsky.social
Because the future is disabled.
Space, climate change, war, pandemics, old age:
All are disabling.
Against Technoableism by @ashleyshoo.bsky.social
Because the future is disabled.
Space, climate change, war, pandemics, old age:
All are disabling.
September 18, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement, by Ashley Shew https://bookshop.org/p/books/against-technoableism-rethinking-who-needs-improvement-ashley-shew/19670010?ean=9781324036661 5/
July 11, 2023 at 6:53 PM
Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement, by Ashley Shew https://bookshop.org/p/books/against-technoableism-rethinking-who-needs-improvement-ashley-shew/19670010?ean=9781324036661 5/
There's a whole collection of books about this very outcome written by talented people are are available at your local library. You might start with "Race After Technology" by Ruha Benjamin, "Algorithms of Oppression" by Safiya Noble, and "Against Technoableism" by Ashley Shew.
July 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
There's a whole collection of books about this very outcome written by talented people are are available at your local library. You might start with "Race After Technology" by Ruha Benjamin, "Algorithms of Oppression" by Safiya Noble, and "Against Technoableism" by Ashley Shew.