Conversations about disability are slowly increasing, especially when it comes to ableist language and how disabled people are represented in the media. Here's how to talk sensitively about disability.
, inspiration porn is defined as"objectifying disabled people for the benefit of nondisabled people."
A wheelchair-bound woman smiles as she takes part in a 'Disability Pride Parade' by people from Italian disability organisations, in front of the Altare della Patria, the Monument of the unknown soldier, on July 14, 2019 in central Rome. - July is designated as "Disability Pride Month" in honor of the 29th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, that aims to guarantee equal opportunities and rights for people with disabilities.
These tropes frame disabled people as being held back by their disability and imply that it's something that they have to overcome. McDonnell-Horita said that her disability identity isn't something she has had to overcome. Instead, she has had to overcome the shame she was taught to feel about herself as a disabled person, ignorant questions that people ask her and the systemic ableism that keeps disabled people out of certain spaces.
"If you have interviewed and spoken to one disabled person, that's only one perspective in the whole community. So trying to even diversify the voices who are speaking about the disability community, I think, is really important," McDonnell-Horita said. For instance, many individuals within the disability community emphasize the harm in writing stories about disabled people that frame them as being pitiable, unhappy or bitter all the time due to their disability. The same is true, however, for stories that center disabled people as being saint-like and positive all the time.
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