Avoid ‘inspiration porn’

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Referring to people with disability as ‘brave’, ‘courageous’, or ‘inspirational’, just because they have a disability is disempowering and patronising. This type of language is known as “inspiration porn”.  A person with disability should not be used to make people without disability feel better about themselves. The term hit the mainstream via prominent Victorian disability … Continued

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