This article focuses on selfies and empowerment of individuals with physical disabilities. By exploring the #FSHDselfies campaign as a case study, I discuss the role affect plays in mediated advocacy for the representation of non-normative bodies, allowing disabled individuals to gather as a community and disrupt contemporary beauty standards. I draw on the case study to re-articulate the term “community of affect” (Climo, 2001) as the socio-political structure that promotes marginalized groups’ negotiation of collective identity and communal action geared towards cultural, social, and political change. This community can be seen as a sub-section or a specific discursive space categorized under “affective publics” (Papacharissi, 2014). I show in this context how participatory forms of representation open a space for negotiation and criticism of marginalized groups on the one hand, while oversimplifying the complex and diverse lives of minority groups on the other hand.

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什么是微笑？通过自拍照和情感政治化残疾

本文着重于残障人士的自拍照和赋权。通过以案例研究#FSHDselfies运动为例，我讨论了情感影响在非规范机构代表的媒介倡导中的作用，使残疾人能够聚集成为一个社区并破坏当代美容标准。我以案例研究为基础，重新表达“情感共同体”一词（Climo，2001年），它是一种社会政治结构，可促进边缘化群体针对文化，社会和政治变革的集体认同和社区行动的谈判。该社区可以看作是“情感公众”下的一个子区域或特定的话语空间（Papacharissi，2014）。