Be motivated to carry on the conversation after you leave. The diversity workshop I attended was titled The Intersectional Nature of Disability at 6:30-7:45pm, in Pray Harrold room 201. Lloyd Shelton is a man who was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy at the age of three. He is wheelchair bound. He is the kind of guy that people stare at as a result of being disabled. Webster defines disabled as “Incapacitated by illness or injury, also: physically or mentally impaired in a way that substantially limits activity especially in relation to employment or education.” but when it all boils down, society defines disabled as not fitting into normality. Society believes that as long as you have a disability, you aren’t like everyone else, that
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I’ve looked at people with disabilities differently, I’ve looked at them, not as less, but as someone who can 't accomplish basic tasks like everyone else can, like they need help with basic activities that I may be able to do, reaching an item higher up for example. However, through this workshop, I learned that I was doing these things, even though I wasn 't aware of it. The Social Model of Disability tells us that having a disability is a problem, and a prevalent amount of people conform to this idealistic. Society is constantly trying to “cure” disabilities with medications and surgeries do to the fact that we glare at disability as a colossal imperfection, when in reality it 's better to be considered different rather than the same as everyone else. Intersectionality is the various components of various identity that we all share as human beings (i.e. race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, etc.). However, intersectionality acknowledges that one can both benefit from and be oppressed by the same system. For example, Lloyd talked about how society produces accommodations for wheelchair bound people (like ramps, cut sidewalks, etc.) in my sociology class we talked about how we consider that a common apparatus in society,
I’ve looked at people with disabilities differently, I’ve looked at them, not as less, but as someone who can 't accomplish basic tasks like everyone else can, like they need help with basic activities that I may be able to do, reaching an item higher up for example. However, through this workshop, I learned that I was doing these things, even though I wasn 't aware of it. The Social Model of Disability tells us that having a disability is a problem, and a prevalent amount of people conform to this idealistic. Society is constantly trying to “cure” disabilities with medications and surgeries do to the fact that we glare at disability as a colossal imperfection, when in reality it 's better to be considered different rather than the same as everyone else. Intersectionality is the various components of various identity that we all share as human beings (i.e. race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, etc.). However, intersectionality acknowledges that one can both benefit from and be oppressed by the same system. For example, Lloyd talked about how society produces accommodations for wheelchair bound people (like ramps, cut sidewalks, etc.) in my sociology class we talked about how we consider that a common apparatus in society,