Charlotte Joanne
A blind writer and accessibility researcher whose fiction and criticism ask what happens when technologies made for the margins become part of the world’s shared infrastructure.
About Charlotte
Charlotte Joanne works at the meeting point of accessibility, technology and lived experience. Her work names Speculative Accessibility: stories that consider how tools designed for people who navigate the world differently might reshape reality for everyone.
She also develops Street Phenomenology, a way of reasoning about identity, perception and testimony from ordinary life: the pavement, the kitchen and the knicker drawer. The method begins with an object, a question and a refusal to stop when the answer becomes uncomfortable.
Appearances
- The Einstein of the Knicker Drawer (available now)
- When the Weapon Becomes the Witness (forthcoming)
- From Battlefield to Biscuits (forthcoming)
Ideas in her work
- Accessibility as architecture, not accommodation.
- Experience belongs to the person living it; the witness matters more than the object.
- Technology can increase agency without replacing the human rituals people choose.