Like pretty much anyone, I have my days of struggling with how I see myself and my body in the world. But it’s the way others see me and my disabled body that is hardest for me to accept. When I looked past the eyes and down the halls of disability history, I saw reflections of my experience as an object of public fascination, and I wanted to examine this precedent to reflect on the implications of staring in our day-to-day lives.
More than ‘just a look’: The long history of staring in the disability community
I wanted to examine this precedent to reflect on the implications of staring in our day-to-day lives
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