I feel like these search results from @nounproject show really powerfully why we need to a) develop a new iconography of disability and b) stop using disability as a metaphor:pic.twitter.com/roLvFYiJzS
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I feel like these search results from @nounproject show really powerfully why we need to a) develop a new iconography of disability and b) stop using disability as a metaphor:pic.twitter.com/roLvFYiJzS
Image: Search results from The Noun Project, for the term "disabled", about half of various are variations on the ISA and the other half of which are 'prohibited' symbols, usually paired with technological devices.
I'm reasonably certain that the device icons don't represent a metaphorical use of the word 'disabled', but an extremely literal one - as in functionality of this device has been disabled.
When I say metaphorical, I am talking about taking language that represents disabled people, and applying it to other cultural contexts. If you subscribe to the social model of disability, then to equate that with the 'disabling' of a device is indeed metaphorical.
In the same way that when media outlets report on how transit has been 'crippled' by a weather event is a metaphorical usage and appropriation of language that represents an oppressed group of people.
But words often mean more than one thing, depending on use and context. The adjective 'disabled' doesn't mean the same thing as the past-tense verb 'disabled'. And using the verb for functionality of machines, devices, etc. is long established.
And what I am saying is that it is still ableist and we need to move away from it. Using sanist slurs is also well-established and has a long history. That does not make any less oppressive or any more okay.
I have a leg in each of these camps - I'm disabled, and a developer too. We need some terminology for switching off or limiting function of systems. We also need some for disability. Human language is famously ambiguous. So... which do we stop using?
You can say "turn on airplane mode" or "activate"/"inactivate", etc., so much to choose from.
The same is true of disability - but there the very etymology itself seems to be problematic. If the problem is equating non-functionality with disability, then we need a new word for our condition instead.
Yes, it's tough. But certainly not impossible.
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