Whether we want to admit it or not a lot of us have engaged in invisible disability discrimination, even if it was unintentional. The truth is that most of us are weary of any person that walks into and out of the disabled bathroom without a problem, because they ‘don’t look disabled.’ But the question is why? Where does this idea of ‘looking disabled’ even come from?
So in order to find out where this phenomenon comes from and what has caused it, we talked to the the co-authors of the book ‘Disability and the Media‘:
- Professor Gerard Goggin – a disability and media expert who is currently the inaugural Professor of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney
- Dr Katie Ellis – a disability and media expert who is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Internet Studies Department at Curtin University
Read about the disability paradox.