Reddit reviews Disability Aesthetics (Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability)

Hey! I'm also an artist - performance artist with a dance based practise :) - at the moment specifically looking at inclusive dance (with able bodied folk).

So, let's answer your questions:

• A lot of the work by Dan Keplinger (an artist with CP) I'm finding really resonate recently, however in a completely different vein I do really like the work of George Tooker.
  
  -CP (and disability in general) doesn't get a lot of exposure (to echo those down below) but the whole 'inspiration porn' thing really pisses me off. (see, Stella Young: https://www.ted.com/talks/stella_young_i_m_not_your_inspiration_thank_you_very_much) as well as the idea that disabled people, specifically disabled dancers, should be at pains to hide their impairments.
  
  
• Something real. Just a person with a disability being a person, not a stereotype.
  
  
• My empower comes from reading up on the social model of disability, and the idea that yeah- impairments can suck sometimes, but that doesn't make it inherently wrong. I am not inherently wrong because I have an impairment: I used to look at myself as wrong, and fucked up- but now I look at myself, and even on bad days, I know that I'm ... well, that I'm human. I celebrate my humanity, not the perception of my impairment placed upon me by society.
  
  
• Crip Theory- Robert Mcruer (https://www.amazon.com/Crip-Theory-Cultural-Queerness-Disability/dp/0814757138)
  
  Disability aethsthetics (https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/cka/Disability-Aesthetics-Corporealities-Discourses-Tobin-Siebers/0472051008)
  
  And the documentary 'vital signs: crip culture talks back'