Thanks Claire. I will share below with colleagues who have welcomed the feedback.
James
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Subject: Re: Seen but seldom heard project - can you provide some feedback?
Feedback from Elisabeth Standen (with her permission to send t this list.)
BW
Claire
Hi Claire
I have just listened to the YouTube clip on “The seen but seldom heard” project.
My initial reaction is anger. The spokespersons were doing precisely what they said they wanted to get beyond. Speaking for instead of truly enabling.
I could actually only hear one of the poems clearly enough to get the message. The woman who pointed out that people saw her ugly wheelchair instead of “The Real Me.”
I do agree that personal stories are a powerful way of glimpsing the inside of other peoples reality. But if such glimpses are to be anything more that just voyarism they need to be in a framework that recognises that everyone in society is responsible by the ways they react to, and treat each other.
I hope this helps.
Elisabeth
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From: James Palfreman-Kay (Dr)<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 9:26 AM
Subject: Re: Seen but seldom heard project - can you provide some feedback?
Hi
Thank you very much for your comments below which I have passed onto colleagues leading on the work.
James
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Sent: 29 September 2012 00:04
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Subject: Re: Seen but seldom heard project - can you provide some feedback?
Hi,
I watched this with great interest. The poems from the individuals, especially Lucy and Jagdev were strong messages and revealed a powerful project BUT I found that in this extract the voices of the young people were drowned by the commentary of the adults working with them: and were these adults all non-disabled? Also, the adult voices were all using a medical model perspective. It would have been interesting to see what effect input from disability activists or disabled poets working from a social model perspective would have had on these young people. So, for me there were two aspects to this documentary: One was the power of the young people and the second was frustration at the professionals using medical model terminology. Unfortunately the second interpretation won so that the final lines "I am not disabled...I am just me" came across as negative and as a rejection of identity as a disabled person.
So more of the young people and less commentary would have produced a more powerful message for me.
Best wishes,
Claire
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Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 3:36 PM
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Hi
I thought the documentary was interesting and as I have worked with disabled people for quite a few years and am disabled myself from my teenage years, think that personal experience is the best way forward to tell able bodied people just what being disabled is like. I often give disability talks myself and although I aim them at all disabilities the groups are nearly always more interested in how I manage with a severe visual impairment because they have someone in front of them who they can see and ask questions of. I have also had other disabled young people say that I am an inspiration to them because they too can think about being able to get a job and have a fairly good life.
Regards Dalveen
From: Disability and higher education policy discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]]<mailto:[mailto:[log in to unmask]]> On Behalf Of James Palfreman-Kay (Dr)
Sent: 28 September 2012 13:17
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Subject: Seen but seldom heard project - can you provide some feedback?
Dear all
I was wondering if you could help? Colleagues at BU have been working on a project (details) below and would like feedback/comments…
BU have been working on a project empowering young people with physical disabilities to share their experiences of living with a disability through poetry and that part of the project involves the production of a documentary. We’re sending the link to the 8 minute ‘preview’ documentary to those with a particular professional/personal interest in the subject and would welcome feedback.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-PUPL42e3kw
James
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