Disability Awareness Month - Diversity according to Family Guy and South Park with Matt Glowacki
Disability Awareness Month - Diversity according to Family Guy and South Park with Matt Glowacki
Event Type
All
Location
University Hall, Whitaker Room, 110G
Date
Time
Contact
Phone
(812) 237-8513
Description
This session uses clips from the television shows to illustrate three different diversity/ social justice issues in one program.
In the presentation, Matt covers ableism, which is discrimination toward people with a disability. He addresses the hardships of trying to overcome physical disabilities and the additional challenges hidden disabilities poses, such as anxiety, depression, and mental health. In explaining lookism, he describes how people in the US undermine themselves by not conforming to the stereotypical image of beauty. Finally, Matt teaches everyone how to conduct an upstander intervention and explains why people within a minority group might be allowed to say certain words.