{"id":1199,"date":"2019-03-21T03:41:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T03:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2019-03-21T03:41:34","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T03:41:34","slug":"alex-slaughters-response-to-stephen-kuusistos-plato-again-and-laura-hersheys-working-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/short-reading-response\/alex-slaughters-response-to-stephen-kuusistos-plato-again-and-laura-hersheys-working-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Slaughter\u2019s Response to Stephen Kuusisto\u2019s Plato, Again and Laura Hershey\u2019s Working Together"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the short reading, Plato, Again<\/em>, Stephen Kuusisto writes\nabout disability through the character Caroline Moore, a woman who had breast\ncancer and has had a mastectomy, which will eventually become a double\nmastectomy. While Caroline is considered disabled due to the surgeries she has\nhad, she is a fifty-two year old, black woman with a master\u2019s in computer\nprogramming. This being said, if she did not have the breast cancer, she would\nbe seen as an abled-bodied person. This story illustrates how many people with\ndisabilities are discriminated against simply because they have a disability,\nbut it also presents how disabled individuals can be taken advantage of and sometimes\nsexually assaulted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Caroline Moore returns to work, she gets sexually assaulted\nby her boss, Densk. When she returns to work after her first surgery, he brings\nher into his office and eventually after asking if \u201cit,\u201d in reference to her\nmissing breast, hurt, he touched her where her breast used to be. This action\nis an example of what we had a discussion about in class regarding disability\nand having a prosthetic limb. For example, some people see someone who has a\nprosthetic leg and proceed to ask if they can touch it. For abled-body people,\nthis does not occur as it is seen as odd; however, apparently, it is not odd or\nweird to ask a disabled person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kuusisto emphasizes at the conclusion of the story that his aim\nwas \u201cto show how ableism, sexism, [and] racism are utilized as workaday tools.\u201d\nThis comes in to play because as previously stated, Caroline is black, a woman,\nand disabled, so all three of those attributes intersect in the discrimination\nagainst her. In the office Moore worked at, she originally held a manager\nposition, but upon returning was demoted to a lower, full \u2013 time job, and upon\nreturning a second time, she was demoted to a part-time position even if she\nhad more experience. Kuusisto compares this to an experience of his own. As a\nblind man, he was once told by a superior that if he wanted to keep his\nprovisional faculty appointment, he would have to take a summer job driving a\ngolf cart around campus. After telling him he could not do this because of his\ndisability, the superior told him that he was not competitive enough for\ncontinued employment. Using both his example and the one in the story, this\nreveals the discrimination that many people do not want to admit occurs to\nthose individuals that are disabled on a daily basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Laura Hershey\u2019s poem, Working Together<\/em>, she portrays\ndisability through the lense of the disabled speaker, who is making a\ncomparison between their job and their caregiver\u2019s job on a daily basis.\nThroughout the poem, the caregiver\u2019s job involves physical tasks while the\nspeaker\u2019s job usually involves vocal instructions or simple and easy movements.\nThis poem illustrates the different tasks one may do when taking care of\nsomeone. The last stanza stands out to me. It emphasizes how one\u2019s job might not\nbe what they ever expected to be doing especially when taking care of an adult.\nThis can be seen in the line \u201cHer job: what no one thinks of doing \/ except for\nself or child.\u201d This poem reveals that the speaker feels almost a sense of\nguilt for being disabled and having to have someone take care of them as if\nthey were a child. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Word\nCount: 576<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\npledge. Alex Slaughter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the short reading, Plato, Again, Stephen Kuusisto writes about disability through the character Caroline Moore, a woman who had breast cancer and has had a mastectomy, which will eventually become a double mastectomy. While Caroline is considered disabled due to the surgeries she has had, she is a fifty-two year old, black woman with … Continue reading “Alex Slaughter\u2019s Response to Stephen Kuusisto\u2019s Plato, Again and Laura Hershey\u2019s Working Together”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30],"tags":[57,54,34,56,55],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-reading-response","tag-laura-hershey","tag-plato-again","tag-short-reading-response-paper","tag-stephen-kuusisto","tag-working-together"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/papJgd-jl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1200,"href":"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions\/1200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}