Find out more about why awareness & charity campaigns are shit.
Read a blog by Stella Young about why we need rights and respect, not charity or 'awareness campaigns'. You can read Stella's article on the Drum by clicking here. In August, Jerry Lewis, host of the US Muscular Dystrophy Telethons, died.
Lewis's controversial involvement in fundraising through charity telethons is something that hurt many disabled people. You can watch 'The Kids Are All Right' here to find out more. You can read an article - Poster Children For Disability Charities - by clicking here. Find out why charity advertising is harmful to perceptions about disabled people.
You can read about it over at the Gammy Awards website, here. Charity ads depict people with disability as victims of circumstance, tragic figures who are deserving of pity. Its often the most common way people without disability learn to define and explain disability. |