Hi there! My name is Shannon Connelly and I am the curator for this website. I have analyzed, tracked, and assessed how the term retarded is being used and how it is at work in today's society. In my process of unravelling the term retarded in it's many contexts, I discovered how the word has made a semantic shift from being a verb to being a noun. The term has generated different types of symbolic action and has held different connotations after being resignified multiple times. At some point, the term shifted from being defined as a verb to a noun, and alided with people and through ideological commitment, constructed a social reality for those labelled as retarded. It is my intention to depict how this word has been resignified multiple times throughout history and how it's meaning has taken symbolic action by constructing a social reality in our current society.
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