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Lack of Significant Difference
Jessica Loseby
United KingdomGALLERYCONVERSATION
This work is based on a text I found on the Internet that highlighted the scientific "lack of significant difference" between...
For me, motherhood brought with it new depths of independence, acceptance, and redemption from the alienation of a body in rebellion. Had my disability happened to my mother (in the unlikely event that she could have survived it), her life would have been one of separation and institutions. Parenthood would have been unthinkable; routine sterilization of disabled women continued until relatively recently.
However, women with disabilities all over the word are starting to say, "I can" - and their children agree.
 
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