Animalisation of disabled people, as a technique of inferiorising them, making them as ‘lesser than human’, as ‘not-human’. At least not the ‘human’ that is valued the most in colonial patriarchal society: the white abled bodied man.
A classic example of animalisation of disabled people is ‘the Elephant Man’ (movie from 1980) based on the life of Joseph Merrick, who most likely had proteus syndrome (causing an overgrowth of skin, bones, muscles, fatty tissues, and blood and lymphatic vessels).
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