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Why The Publishing Industry Can't Get Disability Right
Why The Publishing Industry Can't Get Disability Right - The Establishment
It was an upper-level college fiction workshop, and my story was being discussed that day, along with one other piece. I'd written a contemporary story, part humor and part romance, about two best friends realizing they had romantic feelings for one another, and deciding to date.
Inspiration porn is another common problem with representations of disability. It’s what happens when you take a story about what a disabled person is doing and hold it up as “inspirational,” mainly because they’re disabled and had to overcome obstacles in order to do it. Even when what the disabled person is doing is normal for non-disabled people—learning to drive, going to Prom, running a company, publishing a book—it’s celebrated as inspirational because a disabled person did it. Many of these portrayals are written from an outsider’s perspective; they’re about disabled people, but not written by us.



