I've seen a lot of photography 365 where you take a different picture for a different "theme" every day for a year, or even a crockpot 365 where you vow to use your crockpot and make a different meal for your family every day for a year, but I thought a "Disability 365" was a good way to add to the 365 family. For this blog I plan on posting real life "artifacts" on disability, every day for a year. These are things I would run into in real life, maybe a news article or story, or a person in the store or library, or an article in a magazine. It's not about just randomly searching the internet for a story 50 years ago. It's current and relevant, which is what good stories are all about, right?
Disability is a growing field in the area of education. This blog is a way to get that out there as well as show how disability is represented in our culture and reactions to it. As far as represented, well represented as far as rhetoric goes, image or written, or in television shows, movies, books, etc. The list goes on and on and...well you get the idea. This blog is designed to do what I've outlined above as well as fulfill a final project credit for a disabilities studies class I'm taking WITHOUT having to write an obscenely long paper. ;)
I hope this blog is interesting and you decide to follow it and check back regularly!
Educate. Disabilities knows no boundaries, occurs to all races, ethnicity, socio-ceonomic classes.
-Meg
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