supercrip

(This news report is a bit cheesy and sensationalized; the kind of "supercrip" story that I don't like to see, but it gives a bit of more background about Glennie.)

"Touch the Sound" of YouTube BA Haller 2008

The SI story uses the "supercrip" stereotype to hype Mullins considerable accomplishments with a lede that first lists her successes and then sets her up on that unreachable pedestal: Her accomplishments are each impressive enough on their own, but when you take into account that she's done it all on silicone and titanium legs, she's just making the rest of us look bad.

Archive 2007-07-01 Kay Olson 2007

The SI story uses the "supercrip" stereotype to hype Mullins considerable accomplishments with a lede that first lists her successes and then sets her up on that unreachable pedestal: Her accomplishments are each impressive enough on their own, but when you take into account that she's done it all on silicone and titanium legs, she's just making the rest of us look bad.

Not "legless": Ten pairs of legs! Kay Olson 2007

There's a term, "supercrip," that describes a way of portraying people with disabilities as though it's astonishing that they get out of bed each morning and go about their lives.

Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local slynch2112 2009

Here are a couple alternatives to the SI story's sexualized supercrip slant:

Archive 2007-07-01 Kay Olson 2007

First accomplishments can be problematic for disabled people as a group if the lone achiever is touted as a supercrip and made to represent the stifling stereotypes of "saintly" or "courageous," but they can also open minds.

Disability Blog Carnival #14 -- Firsts Kay Olson 2007

Well, unless we can just talk about an impressive woman with many accomplishments, without the supercrip theme.

Archive 2007-07-01 Kay Olson 2007

So, he elevates her, supercrip style, yet even ultimately denies her that full status.

Flannery O'Connor: The "crippled hillbilly Emily Dickinson" Kay Olson 2007

The Denver Post on comedian Josh Blue, an article that shows how to cover the lives of disabled folks and discuss their impairments without resorting to inspirational or supercrip themes.

Archive 2007-07-01 Kay Olson 2007

How would someone laud her successes without putting her on the supercrip pedestal or fetishizing her amputated limbs either textually or with photos?

Archive 2007-07-01 Kay Olson 2007

There’s what critics call the “supercrip,” a character who compensates for a disability so spectacularly that he becomes a superhero — as in “Daredevil,” about a blind vigilante whose remaining senses have grown supernaturally sharp.

Is There a Right Way to Act Blind? By 2021