Why I Want You to Stare at Me as a Man With Disabilities
Category: QUEER VOICES
It's like a trance has been broken, and they all of a sudden remembered that looking at that guy in the chair is "wrong." That by looking at me in that way, they have somehow deviated from the cultural norms that my disability defies. What if I told you I want you to stare at me? What if I told you that in these spaces, I long to be stared at?
By Andrew Morrison-Gurza, ContributorDisability Awareness Consultant, 2015-09-13