Creative intervention
This page has my creative intervention. This project was supposed to be a meme, PSA, or infographic that high-lighted a specific part of your project and advertise it. I chose a meme campaign, highlighting the fact that despite the ADA being in place, disabled people are still discriminated against when they try to adopt children. I chose wheelchair users in my memes because they are probably the biggest, most visible symbol of disability.
This first meme was just a stock photo off of the internet, and my weakest one.
I tried
my hand at what I interpreted to be “Culture Jamming” by using templates of
pre-existing memes. My
logic was that people will be more likely to click on memes they are familiar
with already. This is Putin, and in his country disabled people of all sorts are denied adoption privileges, despite their orphanages being grossly overpopulated. I used the very popular Scumbag Steve meme as a template.
This final one is of Drake, the singer/rapper, as his character Jimmy on the teenage drama, Degrassi. This meme is usually used by spoofing his lyrics to make fun of the fact that he played a chair-using character. I tweaked the lyrics of one of his songs for my own goal of promoting my topic.