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Notions of the Body and Disability - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Page 2: "They focus on disabled people "overcoming" our disabilities. They reinforce the supiorority of the non disabled body and mind. They turn the lives of disabled people, who are simply leading their lives, into symbols of inspiration."
      - Page 8-9: "In the creation of supercrip stories, non disabled people don't celebrate any particular achievement, however extraordinary or mundane. Rather, these stories rely upon the perception that disability and achievement contradict each other and that any other disabled person who overcomes this contradiction is heroic."
    - - Page 2-3: "Supercrip stories never focus on the conditions that make it so difficult for people with down syndrome to have romantic partners, for blind people to have adventures, for disabled kids to play sports. I don't mean medical conditions. I mean material, social, legal conditions. I mean lack of access, lack of employment, lack of personal attendant services. I mean stereotypes of attitudes. I mean oppression. The dominate story should be about ableism, not the inspirational supercrip crap, the believe-it-or-not disability story."
  - - - Page 6: "Oliver defines disability as "the disadvantage or restriction of activity caused by a contemporary social organization which takes no or little account of people who have physical [and/or cognitive/intellectual] impairments and thus excludes them from the mainstream of society.""
      - Page 7: "In large part, disability oppression is about access. Simply being on Mount Adams, halfway up the Air Line Trail, represents a whole lot of access. When access is defined is measured curb cuts, ramps, and whether they are kept clear of snow and ice in the winter; by the width of the doors and the height of the counters; by the presence or absence of Braille, closed captions, ASL, and TDDs; my not being able to climb all the way to the very top of Mount Adams stops being about disability. I decided that turning abound before reaching the summit was more about impairment than disability."