Activities
Activity 1: Ephemera
Activity: Learning Objectives
- Explore the historical and contemporary forces shaping disability experience.
- Introduce strategies disabled, Mad, and Deaf people create to access their environments.
Activity Instructions
Below you will find an array of images. Each image has significance for the understandings and experiences of disability, primarily in a global north context.
Your task is to consider and explore the connection to the items and terms reflected in these images. Before selecting the icon on each item to learn more, consider the item and the following reflection questions:
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What do you know about this object or term? What was its original purpose and for whom?
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What do you think the significance of this object or term has for disability experience? In your response consider how the object relates to access, individual agency, autonomy, well-being, legacies of health inequities, equity and/or justice. Keep in mind the complexity of disability experience – the ways in which it relates to social relationships of race, colonization, class, gender, sexuality, migration, age.
After reflecting on these questions, select the icons on each image to access resources and learn more about each item. Select the button in the top right corner to expand the image to your full screen.
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Reflection Moment
After exploring, consider the following question:
- How do you imagine using this knowledge in future practice?
