Disability In SF Panel

[spacehawk.livejournal.com]

I agree with ambyr when she said,

"...what I'm really interested in isn't "extrapolating the future of disability through the lens of science fiction" (I am generally skeptical of "science fiction as a means of predicting the future"), but in what today's speculative fictional presentations of disabilities say about our current perceptions, and how speculative fiction can be used to hold up a mirror to ourselves and change the ways we see disability now."

Not a gee wiz panel about advances in medicine and technology. Did you know in the future, "disabled" people will instead have superpowers?

How about this not be the panel discussion.

This panel should be planned better next year and start from the "social model versus medical model" of disability as introduced into the conversation by tikva.

/huge thank you shout out to tikva./

Comments

[coridan.livejournal.com]

I found the panel interesting and informative, if touching on some hot button issues.I was also hoping that we'd also get around to some transhumanist discussion. I agree that medical versus social should have been the baseline of the panel discussion.