Social Inc is hosting a Wednesday Film Recommendation.
All Mohawk College students can access this film for free through TED.
This week:
"When we Design for Disability, we all Benefit"
""I believe that losing my hearing was one of the greatest gifts I've ever received," says Elise Roy. As a disability rights lawyer and design thinker, she knows that being Deaf gives her a unique way of experiencing and reframing the world -- a perspective that could solve some of our largest problems. As she says: "When we design for disability first, you often stumble upon solutions that are better than those when we design for the norm.""
Sensitive Content Warning: This film has content that may be sensitive and triggering. Viewer discretion advised.
Watch "When we Design for Disability, we all Benefit" here.
Featured Book
"The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts" by Maxine Hong Kingston
“As a girl, Kingston lives in two confounding worlds: the California to which her parents have immigrated and the China of her mother’s “talk stories.” The fierce and wily women warriors of her mother’s tales clash jarringly with the harsh reality of female oppression out of which they come. Kingston’s sense of self emerges in the mystifying gaps in these stories, which she learns to fill with stories of her own. A warrior of words, she forges fractured myths and memories into an incandescent whole, achieving a new understanding of her family’s past and her own present.”
Available through the Library catalogue.