Summary Of Petra Kuppers

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Petra Kuppers starts her essay by comparing disabled artists with a turtle and the turtle walker. Both are seen as creating a new and different pace, rhythm, and and performances. Both are recognized as aliens who associates and interacts with the new world. Kuppers then informs the readers that disabled artists and performers are well aware of how the world perceives them; poor, hopeless, slow, unwanted, tragic, slow, etc. However, these individuals are able to reverse that perception and illustrate their themselves in a different form. These performers are resisting the painted politics that are created around disabled bodies. Kuppers further argues that disabled beings are not stupid, they are well aware of persuasiveness and the social

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