Social Text: Periscope: Vampires and Cyborgs: Transhuman Ability and Ableism in the work of Octavia Butler and Janelle Monáe
For Butler and Monáe, transhuman disabled bodies offer possibility and freedom that simple humanity forecloses. Monáe’s use of disability as metaphor supports her alter ego’s search for a freedom in a world much like our own. However, by reducing disability to metaphor and by using ableist language, the real lives of disabled people are obscured. Butler’s depiction of Shori’s hybrid body serves as a flash point for eugenic impulse, allowing an investigation of the deep seated racial prejudices of our time. However, punishing characters through impairment makes disability into retribution, a just sentence for wrongdoing in an ableist world that doesn’t make accommodations for people who need them.
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disability & sci-fi
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I pretty much starved salivating when I read that title
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OMG I basically wanted to write this paper but it wouldn’t have been this swell.
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Hmmm, I like this essay, a lot. But I also want to interrogate something in the way ableism is defined for Butler (and...
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This is the best/most interesting analysis ever.
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