Ableism is shaped by what we see, hear, experience. So just as visuals can drive ableism, visuals can also change the narrative for persons with disabilities by changing the way in which we depict disability.
Children’s learning experience of life and society are influenced by what they see and hear – the stories and pictures and images they see in their storybooks, on television, on radio.
And whilst we have made progress to some extent in creating multi-cultural images and storylines in the articles we read, the stories we read for our children and what we see on television, less progress has been made in making children and adults with disabilities a visible and integral part.
So persons with disabilities have started telling their own stories, their lived experiences, as a tool for social change. They tell their stories by writing books, through prose and poetry, and through film and videos.
We explore how people with disabilities flip the script on disability by using story-telling as a tool for social change, to solicit understanding and action born from solidarity, rather than using it to drive pity, dependence and welfare.
Guests:
Tshepo Seboko (photographer)
Simon Manda and the ThisAbility/ 24Media journalist students with disabilities
Shelley Barry (studio guest and film-maker)
The Human Project (who did the closed captioning for the series)
Babsy Mlangeni (artist)
Babsy Mlangeni
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