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17.45: Bodies, Tech, and Character

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Disability and the Evolution of the Support Structure Suits

I love your point that sort of the allowing ourselves to be more of how we see ourselves in the world is a really important shift, both for fiction and for disability. Look at season 18 of Dancing with the Stars, Amy Purdy dancing the quick step to dancing with Derikov song as you can't hurry love,. oh by the way she's a double amputee and has the little silver, the curved S-curve spring feet on. Does it make them less human? No, it makes them not fall off of scaffolding. The support structure suits that that people are actually making and designing now for to help you know people walk and exist in the world was pretty amazing

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