SOCB47H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Paraplegia, Aimee Mullins, Ontario Human Rights Commission
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Exam -> 5 short answer questions (you will have a choice of more than 5 questions to choose from) The blue and white image of disability is often the normative representation we get. It invisibles the morality of experiences but also hypervisiblizes certain types of disabilities. Titchkosky and michalko: negative, sympathy, misfortune, personal tragedy , requires help from medical professions, abnormal condition. Underlined personal because it is something that often occurs. Disability often conflated with visible signs -> certain visible signs that you can identify disability with and if you don"t then those are not necessarily real disabilities. Before the 1980s, there were two types of advertisements depicting disability and deformity. First group: was comprised of line drawings that magnified the disfigurement of the body. Second group: provided images of children using braces or wheelchairs to elicit pity and donations. These ads contributed to public fear of disabled bodies.
