Abstract

Focusing on how public appearances of disability serve as “public pedagogy,” this chapter interrogates how representation of disability informs understandings of disabled people. We begin looking at this connection through a close reading of appearances of disability in the social media account, Humans of New York, along with audience responses for how they perpetuate ableist tropes. We then engage representations of disability within digital stories created by disabled people through the Re•Vision Centre for Art and Social Justice. Here we explore how disability art gives rise to nuanced understandings of disability informed by disability cultural practices and aesthetics.