Crip Futurisms and the Decolonial Cyborg: Disability, Technology, and Indigenous Relationality in Zainab Amadahy’s Speculative Novel Resistance
Crip Futurisms and the Decolonial Cyborg: Disability, Technology, and Indigenous Relationality in Zainab Amadahy’s Speculative Novel Resistance

Summary/Abstract: This paper examines Zainab Amadahy’s speculative novel Resistance (2013) at the intersection of disability studies and Indigenous Futurisms. It argues that the novel presents disability not as an individual deficit, but as a condition produced by settler colonialism, extractive capitalism, and militarized state power. Drawing on concepts such as debility, the curative imaginary, and disabled ecologies, the article shows how Resistance exposes the biopolitical management of injured bodies and degraded environments. At the same time, the novel offers an alternative framework grounded in Indigenous epistemologies of relationality and care, reframing dependency as a source of collective resilience. This reconfiguration culminates in the figure of Marco Chang, whose embodiment articulates a decolonial cyborg and a practice of crip technoscience, in which assistive technologies support communal survival rather than cure. By bringing disability studies into dialogue with Indigenous Futurisms, the article advances a vision of future worlds grounded in vulnerability, care, and ecological justice.

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