If one is constantly gawking and aww-ing over pictures and stories about animals with disabilities, then they don’t have to spend time thinking about actual disabled people, or the ableism against disabled humans that still exists. These “inspiring” stories, she argues, “provide a way for nondisabled people to talk about and engage with disability in a facile way.”ĭisability isn’t just othered it’s cute, adorable, fuzzy.
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She called it porn quite deliberately, arguing that inspiration porn is like sexual porn in that the images “objectify one group of people for the benefit of another group of people.”Īnd, as with sexual porn, it sometimes involves animals.Īt Disability Intersections, Anna Hamilton suggests that inspiration porn involving animals is another step removed from recognizing the full humanity of people with disabilities. Or, the famous one: “The only disability is a bad attitude.” Inspiration porn is an image of a person with a disability, often a kid, doing something completely ordinary - like playing, or talking, or running, or drawing a picture, or hitting a tennis ball - carrying a caption like “your excuse is invalid” or “before you quit, try.” Aimed at able-bodied viewers, inspiration porn features people with disabilities who appear happy or are doing things, alongside an encouraging message. The term “inspiration porn” was coined by disability activist Stella Young.
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