“We grow up learning that ‘disabled’ is a bad thing. It’s something you don’t want to be, that to call yourself that is somehow defeatist, that you should be trying to overcome it rather than embracing it,” Britt says. “And so I think it’s really, really cool to have people sharing the things that they love about being disabled or celebrating their bodies or talking about the unique perspectives that it gives them on the world.”
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- Ableism and disability models, Human Rights
- Author:
- Lydia Wang
- Source:
- Refinery29
- Date published:
- Fri 30th Jul, 2021