#12 Everything I Know, I Learned From Stella Young

Send us a Text Message.Stella Young was a prolific disability advocate with a disability called osteogenesis imperfecta. She died in 2014 at the age of 32. Stella coined the term "inspiration porn", which she discusses in her viral TEDx Talk (link below). She also championed the social model of disability, which promotes the view that people with disability are disadvantaged by the inaccessibility and ableism of the world around them, rather than by their disability itself. In this episode we...