Inspired? What Are You Going To Do Now?
You have heard it before. You may have said it. "You are such an inspiration!" "(Person's name) is so inspiring!" I have heard it, and I have been the one supposedly “inspiring” people. And I very much dislike it. Disabled people are usually the main subject of what is known as "inspiration porn". We move a finger while disabled, we inspire. If we can't move, but we open our eyes, we inspire. We use technology to live, we inspire. We wake up and enjoy life, we inspire. We smile, we inspire. We breathe, we inspire.
Why The Lie We’ve Been Sold About Disability Is The Greatest Injustice
Stella Young of Ramp Up explains the Social Model of Disability, Inspiration Porn, and the lie we've been sold about disability in this nine minute TED Talk. Stella Young Transcript I grew up in a very small country town in Victoria. I had a very normal, low key kind of upbringing. I went to school, I hung out with my friends, I fought with my younger sisters. It was all very normal. And when I was 15, a member of my local community approached my parents and wanted to nominate me for a "Community Achievement Award". And my parents
