Video clips of restaurant employees helping a disabled customer eat.Profiles of disabled graduates that focus mostly on the sacrifices family members or friends who helped them get through school in the absence of personal care or accommodations.News stories about a student with Down Syndrome being elected Prom King or Queen, depicted as an admirable act of charity.But it is easy to think of clear examples. There is no precise definition of Inspiration Porn. Here are just a few links to personal perspectives on the phenomenon: Nearly every disabled writer, and writer on disability, eventually writes about Inspiration Porn, how they experience it and what it means to them. It’s a foundational topic for people with disabilities. Like actual pornography, Inspiration Porn provides kind of superficial pleasure and gratification for the viewer, while objectifying, often harming the mostly passive subjects being looked at. The term caught on, especially in online disability discussions, because it aptly names an instinctive reaction most disabled people have always experienced, but had difficulty explaining.

“It’s well-intentioned, but those stories also can be very exploitative and they are very limited in really getting to the heart of how people live and what they think and how they’re affected by what’s going on in our civic life.” Kristin Ginger, quoted in an article on disability and reporting for the National Center on Disability and Journalism, says of Inspiration Porn:

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