Stigmatized Imagination and Imagination Beyond Stigma
Stigmatizing ways of imagining play a crucial role in causing expressive and epistemic harms—and more indirectly other kinds of harm as well—by distorting and excusing the suffering of some, making it appear as if it were tolerable or even necessary. But resistant ways of imagining can contest exclusions and stigmatizations, and they can help us become sensitive to the suffering of excluded and stigmatized subjects. (Medina 2013, 252) In Ancient Greek mythology, we often encounter images of...