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• 1 2017-10-30T18:39:22-07:00 #52, address fears about beauty, disability and aging 6 March 20, 2017 plain 2020-05-11T17:20:24-07:00 #52, “Access, Beauty, Disability Culture,” was shared to me by Petra Kuppers who writes:
  “Do you really believe that ending up in a wheelchair is the worst trajectory for you? (one kind of hard truth I, a wheelchair user, hear every day). Address your fears. Educate yourself about the rich lives possible with different physical, sensory, or cognitive systems. Strive to create inclusive spaces, online and in the flesh. Address systemic inequality at the level of architecture, cultural attitudes, representation, and your emotions about different bodyminds and their capacities. These actions will help you to release your own fear of aging. Worlds change.”
   See More:
  • Sins Invalid. An Unshamed Claim to Beauty in the Face of Invisibility
  • Multimodality in Motion: Disability and Kairotic Spaces, Petra Kuppers
  • Access, beauty, disability culture, community performance. Petra Kuppers and the Olimpias
  • #100hardtruths-#fakenews: a primer on digital media literacy

  To see a poetic response to this hardtruth:

  Our Oral Stories are Our Truth

  Petra Kuppers reads the poetic response to this hardtruth #52:

  Petra Kuppers reads Mike Guillen's poem, Our Oral Stories are Our Truth

  Hear the Get Lit Poets respond to hardtruth #52:

  Get Lit Poets respond to hardtruth #52
• 1 2019-07-25T11:56:48-07:00 Our oral stories are our truth 2 Poets of Course plain 2020-03-21T17:41:54-07:00 my stories in my life is disabled
  because I lost my hearings and low vision
  not able to see
  but I could see very hard.
  
  I felt some way
  I do my family treat right
  I got older in 90s to 2000s
  many people do not treat me bad
  I told Jesus that help bad people's pain.
  
  I identify myself to be proud
  I do things and try real and have kids of my own.
  I wish has cure to fix me and other disabled people
  it the truth.
  also I don't like people to hurt my feelings.
  - Mike Guillen
   

  This poem is a response to hardtruth #52:

  #52, address fears about beauty, disability and aging

  Hear the author of hardtruth #52 read this poetic response:

  Petra Kuppers reads Mike Guillen's poem, Our Oral Stories are Our Truth ​​​​​​​