How disabled and visibly different people were displayed for profit.
The crowd paid to stare.
Victorian freak shows presented people with visible differences as curiosities, wonders or monsters.
Some performers had agency and income. Others were exploited. The wider culture still framed difference as something for public consumption.
Awareverse avoids turning lived experience into spectacle. People are not content.
When looking at freak shows and spectacle, ask: who had power, who was being labelled, and what would have changed if the human being had been seen first?