Article Summary by Edmund Barker and Harry Parker Assistive technologies, such as wheelchairs and prosthetic legs, have been helping some people participate in Sport who wouldn’t be able to otherwise. In some ways these technologies have helped to make disability more present and visible across many sporting cultures. For the most part, however, differently abled […]
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Deaf-led Alarm Design: Technology and Disability in Home, Work and Parenthood
Article Summary by Gretchen Von Koenig Security alarms, alarm clocks, baby monitors and fire alarms are everyday devices in our homes that help us wake up, feel secure and care for our families. In the history of alarm designs that are dominated by auditory-based alerting systems, stories of how alarms were hacked for deaf needs […]
Digital Production and itDf
Editorial by Eleanor Webster Over the course of the Imagining technology for Disability futures symposium, held in Leeds in April 2024, I was often asked: “what is it you actually do?” This didn’t come as much of a surprise to me: digital producing is a nebulous title and my job is the kind that most […]
Imagining Alternative Futures with Augmentative and Alternative Communication: A Manifesto
Article Summary by Darryl Sellwood and Graham Pullin As authors who use AAC devices, we emphasize the need for disabled individuals to be directly involved in creating solutions that impact our lives. Our manifesto challenges the conventional, technology-driven future of AAC, advocating instead for social inclusion and equity. We stress the importance of interdependence […]
Documentary film: Imagining Technology for Disability Futures
By Brandy Schillace As Editor in Chief, I’m excited to bring you this amazing documentary film. We recently started a program called Path to Publication, a means of offering editorial support to help topics collections come together for those who lack institutional or other kinds of support. Our first issue will come out in December […]
‘What’s a D and C Between Friends?’ Space, Intimacy and the Medicalisation of Unmotherhood in Modernist Literature
Article Summary by Kate Schnur This article explores the representations of different experiences of “unmotherhood” are represented in literature of the twentieth century. As this special issue explores the conditions of modernity that shape maternity, I ask how are the conditions of living outside of motherhood similarly shaped by those same conditions? I look to […]
‘Mrs. Don’t Care’: Refusing Modern Black Motherhood in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand
Article Summary by Matty Hemming This essay offers an analysis of Nella Larsen’s Harlem Renaissance novel, Quicksand, within the context of Larsen’s career as a nurse. I consider what thinking about the author’s experience of public health nursing and nurse training in the early twentieth-century does to our understanding of her novel’s portrayal of reproductive […]
Smoothies, Bone Broth, and Fitspo: The Historicity of TikTok Postpartum Bounce-Back Culture
Article Summary by Bethany L. Johnson, Margaret M. Quinlan and Audrey Curry Have you ever implemented dietary, wellness or health advice from a TikTok video? You probably aren’t alone. In this study, we explore the health, wellness, and fitness content on TikTok with a focus on a particular phase in life—the postpartum period, and we […]
Motherhood, Medicine and Magazines in Interwar Vienna: The Case of Die Mutter (The Mother, 1924–1926)
Article Summary by Alys X. George Whether we admit it or not, these days we all rely on “Doctor Google” for information about our bodies, health, and medical issues. But what did people do in the past? This article investigates how Austrian women in the 1920s accessed medical knowledge about (impending) motherhood. A grassroots network […]
From the Womb to the World: A Study of Pregnancy Narratives by Celebrity Moms in India
Article Summary by Pratyusha Pramanik and Ajit K Mishra This article delves into how celebrity moms in India are crafting their public images by sharing their pregnancy experiences publicly. Even though motherhood is highly glorified in India, women often have little control over their choice to become a mother and how to become a mother. […]