Corona Look of the Day: Social Media Posts About Disabled Beauty and Resistance in the Time of COVID-19

Portrait of Bethany by Sara Palmer, April 26, 2020.

The authors created a photo and essay series entitled “Corona Look of the Day.” Each day we took photos of outfits paired with colorful makeup and inspired text descriptions about the beauty in disability. These posts were formulated as resistance to the eugenic discourse pervading the early days of the pandemic that argued disabled and elderly deaths were acceptable and probable. In contrast to this bleak assessment, this artistic series sought to affirm disability through uplifting portraiture.