Midsemester Project: History Repeats Itself

(Open image in the attachments, then read the text) - image description is in the section down below

Death. Incarceration. Invisibility. Erasure. Undesirability. Helplessness. Capitalism. Institutionalization.

Has it really not changed at all?

Are we stuck in a vicious circle forever?

How do we break free?

Institutionalization. Capitalism. Helplessness. Undesirability. Erasure. Invisibility. Incarceration. Death.

Yeah, don’t be hungry. Have some crayon.

The ceiling got yellow squares. They look old. Like they be here a long time. Like I be here a long time.

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Image Description: Title says 'History Repeats Itself'. Quotes on the purple and blue background. The history ones are in orange, the fiction ones are in green. History and fiction quotes are paired, connected with one arrow on each side, one pointing to the first quote, the other one to the second, implying the repetitive nature of described tendencies.

Quote pairs:

With money exchange and currency images:

• "The applicant’s certified condition will seriously interfere with his earning capacity."
• "The main subject at the meeting tonight is how they’re going to get some better media coverage."

With robe (cover) and labor images:

• "The economic rationale of the LPC clause could serve, and often did serve, as a false cover story. Ableism and a desire for a specific form of American bodies motivated the deportation of many potential immigrants."
• "And don’t send people off to the booby hatch just because they homesick and didn’t take their meds."

With suit and photo frame images:

• "Newborns and individuals with physical trauma, [a disability that today could be successfully managed over the course of a long and healthy life], sometimes simply died."
• "Yes, the death was tragic, but under the circumstances, a reasonable number of deaths is justified."

 With bird cage image:

• "A perception of the need for care or confinement, rather than diagnosis, drove the early development of institutionalization. Sometimes confinement was horrific."
• "Kids like this are trained to stay helpless. So they have to stay institutionalized."

 With eye with a slash over it image:

• "Civic undesirability was slippery and broad."
• "I have the power to become invisible in some restaurants. I just never know which restaurants. Or how to turn the power off."