#CripTheVote: Disability Activism, Social Media, and the Campaign for Communal Visibility

Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric Jun 2021 RSS

#CripTheVote: Disability Activism, Social Media, and the Campaign for Communal Visibility

Abstract

This essay was composed on the historic territories of the Akokisa/Orcoquisa and Karankawa peoples. In 2016, a Bloomberg poll revealed that what bothered voters most about then-presidential candidate Donald Trump was his mocking of disabled journalist Serge Kovaleski during a campaign rally in South Carolina. The previous November, Trump had ridiculed Kovaleski, who has arthrogryposis,… Continue reading #CripTheVote: Disability Activism, Social Media, and the Campaign for Communal Visibility

Journal: Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
Published: 2021-06-30
Topics: social media disability studies multilingual writers

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