February 28, 2017 - 00:13
I am interested in thinking more about interactions with people who have intellectual disabilities. I think back to the idea of Riva's portraits and how she didn't want to draw subjects who had intellectual disabilities because she wanted to be sure about having their consent. But this makes me wonder if by doing that, she is assuming that they are not able to give consent and if we decide that certain people don't have the ability to make autonomous decisions then are we not respecting them as people. I've been thinking about this while interacting with our CCW participants and thinking about if we can consider them giving consent to something like having portraits of them be made and displayed.