ePortfolio - Kelsey Bernhauser

My final project is linked here .

Society views dis/ability as something "bad" and "not normal". Whether someone has an intellectual, physical, or mental deficit, they are viewed as dis/abled. In the article, the prefix dis indicates " indicates negation, lack or deprivation: to deprive something of its power. We feel this when we disagree. To negate is to nullify, invalidate, render null and void, make invalid, neutralise, cancel out, undo, reverse, revoke, rescind, abrogate, overrule, over turn, avoid and retract. To dis is to trouble" ( Goodley & Runswick-Cole, 2016)  This article strives to disrupt the narrative that dis/abled people are "different" and therefore have different needs and wants. When in reality, they are entitled to the same rights to a job, a family, and a home.  Because we have been socialized to think of dis/abled as "less than", people have been focused on finding cures, lessening "symptoms", and making their experiences mor...

i) Growing up I never felt that gender norms were imposed on me by my immediate family. My parents always were supportive when I had a Spider-Man obsession, made sure I knew how to change tires, mow the lawn, bought me and my sister Nerf guns, attended our sports events, and groomed us to cheer on the Boston Bruins. However, they also put us in ballet classes, piano lessons, taught us how to cook, got us Bratz dolls, and let us play with mom’s old makeup. I think that my childhood was an equal balance of "boy" activities and "girl" activities. I can relate to Chandria's Self Story 4 because of the way hat other girls see her as a "boy". I never touched makeup until grade 9 when I got to high school. I also thought that braids and makeup was a "girly-girl" thing growing up. I am reminded of my own story when the other girls in Chandria's story say that "she's such a boy." In my own story I talk about how much I lik...