The Deal With Disability

The Deal With Disability: "For god's sake, treat adults like adults"

Music post by Ashley Brittner, Submitted by Ashley Brittner on September 3, 2009 - 12:43am; tagged activism, art activism, Eva, gender, queer, The Deal With Disability.

Last month, a 26-year-old woman known only on her site as Eva began posting video blogs about the way people treat her. Her reactions are displayed in the writing that accompanies the videos, there is barely any dialogue to the videos and rarely is Eva herself shown in them. Eva has Cerebral Palsy, she cannot speak and she gets around in a power wheelchair. Mounted to her wheelchair is a video camera, which says is always recording, that captures some rather disappointing interactions that she has with people who either ignore her entirely or patronize her to the point of frustration. While her reactions are not always evident in the videos themselves, the paragraphs she writes get her point across loud and clear.