Life Narratives: The Key to Breaking down Stigmas of Disability
Over the past month I have been questioning my understanding of disability after reading G. Thomas Couser’s book Signifying Bodies. Couser identifies how societies understanding of disability is limited and often are associated with stigmas (i.e. helplessness and unequal). He encourages people with disabilities to write autobiographies that ‘question the status quo’, to show abled body people that the real constraints of disability isn’t due to the disability itself but of the social stigmas that oppressive to those with disabilities. I then was directed towards Pasquale…read more