Seeing things about Chadwick Bosemans death and his disability, along with the BLM protests, has made me think, how come you don’t get recognition until your dead or someone dies? The BLM movement didn’t get picked up in the media like it has recently untill we were shown footage

Of black people being murderd. In the same way it hasn’t been until Chadwick Bosemans death that a lot of things about invisible disabilities has been becoming more apparent online. Even with art many famous artists and paintings weren’t famous untill well after the artist died.

This thread feels like it should end with like a “and here’s why this happens” but honestl I don’t know a reason. Why aren’t people or groups, especially marginalised people groups, recognised for their work their work without death having to “trigger” its or their popularity?

As I’ve been thinking while writing this I’ve realised that it’s probably because many of these thi ya could be considered “taboo”,”to political” or just generally disapproved of being highlighted by society, seeing that much of what I’ve listed (even the art)-

Has and to some degree still, fits I to those boxes of “things you don’t talk about at the dinner table”. The BLM is to political, so is ableism to some degree, and many other issues that don’t get discussed enough until something drastic happen to catch the mediaa attention.