Kathryn Allan > Quotes

“Likewise, much of science fiction is, at its heart, the story of the search for accessibility or what happens when something we can’t access now—outer space, time travel, telepathy—is or becomes accessible to us.”
― Kathryn Allan, Accessing the Future: A Disability-Themed Anthology of Speculative Fiction

“One of the key rallying cries of disability activism is the recognition and celebration of interdependence (not independence) because no one truly survives by their own labour and effort (think about the roads you use to get around, the food you eat, or the electricity that powers your house—these are organized communal works).”
― Kathryn Allan, Uncanny Magazine, Issue 24, September/October 2018: Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue

“For what is much of science and technology if not the ongoing pursuit of accommodations?”
― Kathryn Allan, Accessing the Future: A Disability-Themed Anthology of Speculative Fiction