Episode Details

What does it mean to live in a world that is already broken, and what can disability justice teach us about creating more livable futures? In this episode of The Good Robot, Eleanor Drage speaks with Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire, authors of Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival, about disability, technology, accessibility, care, maintenance, and collective survival.

They explore how technologies from ramps to genetic medicine are shaped by social, political, and economic systems. The conversation takes us from why mainstream tech innovation can distract us from maintenance and repair, how "brokenness" is experienced unevenly, and what AI means for accessibility and disability justice. At its heart, this episode asks a powerful question: What are we maintaining, what are we repairing, for whom, and toward what kind of world?

Reading List:

• Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival by  Kelly Fritsch & Anne McGuire
• “Crip Technoscience Manifesto” by  Aimi Hamraie & Kelly Fritsch 
• “Crip Technoscience” by  Kelly Fritsch and Suze Berkhout
• War on Autism: On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence by Anne McGuire 
• Disability Injustice: Confronting Criminalization in Canada edited by Kelly Fritsch and colleagues

Edited by: Meibel Dabodabo