Lesson Plan: Bodies Impossible: How We See Black Bodies in the Media
In this lesson plan, participants will explore media literacy and representations of Black bodies.
This series was designed to unpack how ableism has many layers within an antiblack society, but also how our unpacking can deploy more ableism as we try to figure out what healthy and consensual engagements look like.
In this series episode, I created tools and discussed the nuances of how the term ‘narcissism’ and ‘narcissist’ are used colloquially and heavy-handedly. In order to address ableism and abuse culture, we cannot misapply what we believe to be pathologically bad traits or disorders as a catchall for abusers.
In this series episode, I created tools and discussed the nuances of how the term ‘gaslight’ is used colloquially and loosely. In order to address ableism and abuse culture, we cannot misapply what we believe to be a catchall indictment of emotional abuse when we’re uncomfortable or when we receive disingenuous engagement.
written and designed by hunter shackelford.
written and designed by hunter shackelford.
written and designed by hunter shackelford.
This chart was made to clarify how Blackness (and race at large) is not a stagnant identity nor does it only have one marker within it’s meaning. Race is how you look, how you act, who gave birth to you, who raised you, where you live, how you’re seen, and in your blood. It is never one thing, which means we can never gatekeep what is always changing and what is always dictated by white supremacist institutions.
These graphic were developed to define what Self Harm (NSSI) is and to also broaden our understandings of how many people cope through various types of self-injury to process their feelings.
