I need to talk about something said to me recently by someone in the academic world, when they assumed that I had been doing “more physical than intellectual work” over the prior months. I cannot seem to shake this comment; it has been months, and it’s still on my mind. I suppose that’s when you know you’re staring down potential blog material. The point of contention here is the implication that physical work and intellectual work are mutually exclusive. While that may not h

"When I hear us dream our futures, believe we will make it to one, We will make one. The future lives in our bodies. Touch it." from "Femme Futures" by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha I’m going to start right at my point: In the automated future, we’ll all be disabled. But I’ll get back to that in a second. First, let’s talk about robots and labor: Robots (or automatons or replicants or synths or droids or “skin jobs”) have long been stand-ins for discussions about labor eth