"But Zoe's Race reminds us that the values underpinning the disability- and disease-based events aren't inevitable. We can shift our focus from cure to access, or hold the two in tandem, insisting that our present-day body-minds are as important as any vision of the future.” 

“On the mountain trails, I yearn to fly down hill, feet touching ground, pushing off, smooth and fluid. Instead on steep stretches I drop down onto my butt and slide along using my hands and feet, for a moment becoming a four-legged animal. Only then do I see the swirl marks, tiny orange newts climbing around the tree roots, otherworldly fungi growing on rotten logs. My shaky balance gives me this intimacy with the mountains.” 

“Many deaf people claim themselves not as disabled but as of linguistic minority. They locate the trouble they experience not in their inability to hear but in the non-deaf world's unwillingness to learn and use sign language.”

“This moment highlights how slippery cure can be. On the surface, the drive to eradicate disease and disorder appears to underpin development and production of eflornithine. But actually cures life-saving purpose slips into the background overshadowed by profit making.”