Reminder:
My project is centered around the idea of relationships in/across disability. To explore this, to educate myself and others I am using mainly anecdotal pieces for perspective. Through this journey I hope to re-direct people’s minds when they think of disability or how they treat a loved one.I’m going to have main sections that will have subsections of information I find relevant for each, some might be longer than others for personal interest sake. The main sections will be Family Relationships, Romantic, Friendships, and a section on Sex/Sexuality (relationship with self). I would like to include mental and physical disabilities since I’m interested in both. Subsections might include a chosen theoretical approach to look at the subject from, important concepts not talked about enough, and why it matters to know the information or what it means. I intend to do a slideshow presentation with different complimentary embedded media forms (I.e., pictures, videos, music).
Progress:
So far, I have some resources I’m considering using for information and stories to cite. Additionally, I might try to find scholarly articles with certain statistics but I don’t want this to be heavy research-based and like a story-telling approach more.
Sexuality/Sex:
Vice’s Sexual Healing: Inside the World of Medically Assisted Sex
Robert McRuer’s Sex and Disability
Alex Taylor’s blog piece titled Disability and Dating: ‘Why do people think I’m my boyfriends’s carer’
https://www.easterseals.com/who-we-are/history/ Easterseals Blog
Romantic:
Alex Taylor’s blog piece titled Disability and Dating: ‘Why do people think I’m my boyfriends’s carer’
https://www.easterseals.com/who-we-are/history/ Easterseals Blog
*For both Family & Friendship I am trying to decide between a few YouTube videos/interviews to take from but haven’t made a final decision yet*
Worries/Questions-
One main concern is how I go about sharing the information and what I share. I want to be able to recognize my status of privilege here, and that I am not “studying” a group of people/ a community I am not a part of. With that in mind, I thought taking from certain approaches or a main one (DS and rhetorical lens as we’ve been learning about) would help reduce that impression and everything stays respectful and educational. I want this to feel insightful and interesting enough to answer certain questions while posing others. I’m having a hard time with resources that I think are solid but I also find it interesting the results I’m getting as they are telling themselves. I’m debating reflecting on it in the presentation, how ignorant some related searches were or how hurtful titles were. I believe the media will be the easiest part to incorporate and the most fun for this though which is exciting.