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Lead poisoning and exposure can leave layers of uncertainty in the wake. My twin babies were exposed to lead at our previous home in Ohio. One of them experienced acute toxicity which can potentially disrupt her cognitively for life. We were poor renters, so in hindsight and in lew of Flint, it is not suprising. To your point about the visibility of toxicity, my familial experience points to the stigma attached to percieving certain populations as risky.

This set of images incite an intuitive and emotional response. Perhaps the power of these images lies on the fact that, when presented together, it embodies the ways in which the research sphere and public alike have racialized the victims of toxicity. This visualization denote how these institutional images of this sort have always been problematic. As a non-u.s citizen who was not born in North America, I would like to know more about how regional prejudices and focuses infleunce these forms.

This is a strong image precisely for the ways that it forces the viewer to confront the information in the previous slide on U.S.  lead poisoning. In fact, playing with the order of the first and second image produces quite different readings depending on the order they are presented. It appears that given the theoretical thrust of the slideshow, it may be interesting to see how placing this image as the first image would create a discussion of the way we visualize toxicity in relation to lead (third vs.