Stella Young: I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much | TED Talk | TED.com
ted.com/talks/stella_young_i_m_not_your_inspiration_thank_you_very_muchStella Young is a comedian and journalist who happens to go about her day in a wheelchair — a fact that doesn't, she'd like to make clear, automatically turn her into a noble inspiration to all humanity. In this very funny talk, Young breaks down society's habit of turning disabled people into "inspiration porn."
The social model of disability: an outdated ideology?
disability-studies.leeds.ac.uk/files/library/Shakespeare-social-model-of-disability.pdfThe paper explore the background to British academic and political debates over the social model, and argue that the time has come to move beyond this position. Three central criticisms of the British social model are presented, focusing on: the issue of impairment; the impairment/disability dualism; and the issue of identity. It is suggested that an embodied ontology offers the best starting point for disability studies, and some signposts on the way to a more adequate social theory...
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Users don’t hate change. They hate you. – Christina Wodtke
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