Michael Chemers short essay argues about how shows, such as freak shows, further marginalizes those who are disabled, and continues to create that stigma today. Chemers explains that the body of a person that is considered disabled is not much different from those who performs theatrically. Both are characterized by system of control. “Freakery, that is, the intentional performance of constructed abnormality as entertainment, raises particularly thorny questions about the way history regarding stigmatized bodies in performance has traditionally been done. Because freak shows have customarily attracted performers whose bodies are marked as sites of socially-constructed notions of abnormality, practitioners of freakery have been to a significant
