In a Rose Tattoo - This life has many shades (on Wattpad) https://my.w.tt/e3vy7FaX28 Dylan is a famous sculptor that has had to do his sculptures on the digital media lab from NYU since his hands got injured in a bike accident. A very passionate artist, Dylan pays little attention to other people until he meets NYU student Irene “Iry” Smith who also has had a serious hand injury that took her from her beloved Viola. To the surprise of NYU’s digital media director, Dylan’s childhood friend professor Adam Quinn, the aloof artist starts smiling and even joking with the Iry, shy new intern on his lab. This is the story of two broken people in pain finding a way to move forward together from a tragic past, suicidal thoughts, handicaps and isolation through the healing power of love, art, music - and tattoos. Inspired by the Dropkick Murphy’s song “Rose Tattoo”
Initiative à Zurich, l'idée est de concevoir des mannequins selon d'autres normes que celles dictées par la mode, en s'appuyant sur les mensurations de personnes atteintes de différents handicaps. Installés dans la vitrine d'un grand magasin, ils redonnent une place à la différence physique, au milieu des silhouettes conformes qui symbolisent le corps.
Dessinée par Uta Gredner et Anke Salomon. Une solution originale pour s'essuyer les mains quand on a un seul bras opérationnel. Une façon très inattendue de travailler le textile de la serviette éponge, qui en fait un objet décoratif.
Rampe pour fauteuil roulant, dessinée par Chan Wen JieChan Wen Xia. Une solution réversible pour faire cohabiter sans difficultés les besoins des personnes en fauteuil roulant et des personnes valides (bien utile aussi pour les poussettes)
Dessiné par Gabriele Meldaikyte. Un plateau multifonctionnel, contenant 7 configurations et plein d'astuces pour manipuler la nourriture avec une seule main. On peut regretter néanmoins le design très minimaliste qui, en se concentrant sur la simplicité et l'élégance, garde un aspect un peu froid et médical.
Dessinée par l'agence Denovo Design. Une canne qui reste debout même quand on la lâche. Outre les avantages pratiques qu'elle confère (pouvoir se libérer les mains rapidement, ne pas se baisser pour la ramasser), je trouve que c'est une manière amusante de donner une vision décalée de cet objet qui connote habituellement la vieillesse ou la pénibilité, en lui insufflant une sorte de présence, en la transformant en une sorte de petit animal de compagnie.
Fauteuil roulant convertible en vélo, dessiné par Siwapong Kijjaprasert. Une belle idée qui montre que le fauteuil roulant ne doit pas être perçu comme un objet contraignant, et que la mobilité, au delà d'un besoin, est aussi un plaisir. Le design futuriste accentue l'image dynamique et permet de se débarrasser de la connotation médicale.
Prothèse mécanique à imprimer en 3D, conçue par Richard Van As et Ivan Owel. Un moyen de garantir l'autonomie sans passer par des systèmes automatisés et chers. Un simple système de câbles permet aux doigts mécaniques de se replier quand le poignet se contracte, et les plans sont téléchargeables gratuitement sur internet, la prothèse ne coûte donc que le prix de la matière.
Dessinée par Zsolt Varga de l'agence Rehab, produite par Community Cars. Un véhicule entièrement conçu selon les besoins des personnes en fauteuil roulant. Contrairement aux voitures aménagées que l'on trouve habituellement sur le marché, elle ne reprend pas les archétypes de l'automobile, pensée selon la norme d'un corps “valide” (porte latérale, siège…), mais elle réinvente des fonctionnalités et des volumes plus adaptés. Petite et légère, cette voiture prend le contre-pied du préjugé selon lequel les fauteuils roulants “prendrait trop de place”, mais elle reste néanmoins limitée aux déplacements urbains et périurbains.
Extension pour fauteuil roulant dessinée par Tammy Kalinsky. Une solution simple, qui se greffe sur n'importe quel fauteuil roulant, et qui fait de la promenade un moment d'échange, qui rétablit une forme d'égalité puisque les 2 individus avancent côte à côte.
Un outil pour tenir son livre avec une seule main (moi qui ai mes 2 bras j'en vois aussi l'utilité, comme quoi un objet pensé selon les contraintes d'un handicap peut être utile à tous). Simple mais très efficace!
Pas toujours très discrets, ni très esthétiques, tenant parfois plus de la machine de guerre ou du film de science fiction, tous ces fauteuils roulants ont au moins le mérite de montrer que tout est possible! À nous d'imaginer le fauteuil idéal.
I used to be confused about why “Handicap” became offensive, too (as I remember it, the movement to stop using it started picking up steam in the early 1990s). And then, a few years ago, I went on a deep dive into the history of it for part of a book I was working on (My main source for this info was an article in an academic journal I found online that’s now behind a paywall {sigh}).
But this is what I remember. I love it as part of word history, because it says so much about how we perceive things, and how we choose the words we do.
Anyway:
TheFolkHistory of the word says that’s because it comes from the phrase “Cap-in-Hand” – in other words, begging, and gives the suggestion that the only thing disabled people are good for is begging.
Thetruehistory of the word is that it started out associated with sports (Golf, and Horse Racing) and referred to an extra difficulty the stronger competitor had to deal with in order to even up the stakes for the weaker competitors.
Around the turn of the 20th century, it started being applied to children with intellectual impairments, and framing their lives as being burdened by their limitations. It might have started out as neutral at the time, but it quickly morphed first to a term of pity porn, and a derogatory term (The children are burdened by their impairments, and they are, in turn, a burden on Society).
At the end of World War 1, the word “Handicap” began to be applied to all disabilities, especially to the wounded soldiers coming back from the War, and applying for government assistance. And then, the military system spread to the civilian sector, and the way states ran their welfare systems.
And so, by the middle of the 20th century, the word “Handicap” came to be associated with bureaucracy and having to submit to “experts” examining us, to decide how much help we deserve, and how many hoops we have to jump through to get it (some things never change). And so that feelslike begging with “Cap in hand,” even if that isn’t where the word actually comes from.
And then, by the ‘90s, the “Social Model of Disability” began to take hold – that’s the idea that we’re not only disabled by our own impairments, but also by how our society is built (lack of accessible housing, inflexible employment requirements, etc.) and the word “Handicapped” implies that our impairments are burdens we carry for ourselves, and “Disability” doesn’t.
So that’s why the consensus was gradually reached that “Disability” was the better word.
(Sorry this got long; I’m something of a word and history geek)
#is this a usa only thing? #an english speaking only thing? #cause i didn’t know it was a derogatory term #english is my second language
I know this was, indeed, a movement in the American Disability Community to push for using “Disability” instead of Handicapped, back in the late ‘80s / early 90s. And this discussion on Reddit was spurred by someone linking to a feature of the Oxford English Dictionary, where it will note if a word is considered offensive or not.
So it might be an English-only, or American-only thing. Certainly, the link between “Cap-in-Hand,” and “Hand-in-Cap” is based on a quirk of an English saying. And since I’ve never been active in the Disability Rights Movement outside the U.S., I can’t say what’s considered offensive in other languages.
But there were also older, American, native English speakers in the discussion saying this was nonsense, and political correctness, ‘cause they’re not offended by it.
Which is why I wanted to write out this explanation, to show that there was a reason and a history behind it (now, coming up on 100 years of history). Mostly, I think the main reason why “Handicapped” fell out of favor is because it’s always been a label put onto us by people in authority, instead of a word we chose for ourselves.
I used to be confused about why “Handicap” became offensive, too (as I remember it, the movement to stop using it started picking up steam in the early 1990s). And then, a few years ago, I went on a deep dive into the history of it for part of a book I was working on (My main source for this info was an article in an academic journal I found online that’s now behind a paywall {sigh}).
But this is what I remember. I love it as part of word history, because it says so much about how we perceive things, and how we choose the words we do.
Anyway:
TheFolkHistory of the word says that’s because it comes from the phrase “Cap-in-Hand” – in other words, begging, and gives the suggestion that the only thing disabled people are good for is begging.
Thetruehistory of the word is that it started out associated with sports (Golf, and Horse Racing) and referred to an extra difficulty the stronger competitor had to deal with in order to even up the stakes for the weaker competitors.
Around the turn of the 20th century, it started being applied to children with intellectual impairments, and framing their lives as being burdened by their limitations. It might have started out as neutral at the time, but it quickly morphed first to a term of pity porn, and a derogatory term (The children are burdened by their impairments, and they are, in turn, a burden on Society).
At the end of World War 1, the word “Handicap” began to be applied to all disabilities, especially to the wounded soldiers coming back from the War, and applying for government assistance. And then, the military system spread to the civilian sector, and the way states ran their welfare systems.
And so, by the middle of the 20th century, the word “Handicap” came to be associated with bureaucracy and having to submit to “experts” examining us, to decide how much help we deserve, and how many hoops we have to jump through to get it (some things never change). And so that feelslike begging with “Cap in hand,” even if that isn’t where the word actually comes from.
And then, by the ‘90s, the “Social Model of Disability” began to take hold – that’s the idea that we’re not only disabled by our own impairments, but also by how our society is built (lack of accessible housing, inflexible employment requirements, etc.) and the word “Handicapped” implies that our impairments are burdens we carry for ourselves, and “Disability” doesn’t.
So that’s why the consensus was gradually reached that “Disability” was the better word.
(Sorry this got long; I’m something of a word and history geek)
so what’s the actual etymology of the word “handicap”? Does the “cap” have something to do with capping (as in limiting) the performance of the fastest racehorse or whatever?
Good Question!
It actually goes back to an English betting / swapping / trading game, called “Hand in the Cap,” or “Hand-in-Cap,” first recorded around 1650 (Though the game itself might be older).
And the rules were thus:
Two people who have different items they want to trade (to make this a modernized example, let’s say: I have a 1980s Rubik’s Cube, and you have a paperback edition of Restaurant at the End of the Universe)
But neither of us know if it’s a fair trade.
So we hire an appraiser/umpire.
One of us brings a cap, and puts it on the table.
You, I, and the umpire each put $5 in the cap.
The umpire examines both our stuff and determines that your book is worth $3 dollars more than my Rubik’s Cube.
If we both agree that that’s a fair appraisal, I give you my cube, plus $3. You give me the book. And the umpire gets the $15 in the cap (He puts his “hand in the cap” to pull out the money).
Ifyouthink that’s fair, but Idon’t, we each keep our stuff, and youget the $15 (and vice-versa)
If neither of us thinks it’s fair, we each keep our stuff, and the umpire gets the $15 bucks.
So it looks like there’s a two out of three chance for the umpire (the handicapper, which is still a word, BTW), to get the money. But it would be very hard to deliberately set a price that would be unfair to bothplayers. So the best chances for the umpire to get paid is to try and be as impartial as possible. And it’s in the traders’ interest to err on the side of agreeing to the trade.
(Since learning the rules of this game, I’ve thought it might make an interesting variation on a charity raffle for school or other community fundraiser. It’s no more of a gamble than the more ordinary raffle, and people could get rid of stuff they no longer want)
Over time, “Hand-i’-Cap” came to mean the extra money paid to make an unequal trade equal, and later, came to apply to extra weight in a horse’s saddle, or the extra strokes allowed certain players in golf, to make the odds of the game/race more equal.
