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This image is usefu as an ethnographic text in so far that the author does well in explicating the socially contingent impact of exposure to lead to particular communities. In addition, while the map is primairly focused on macro-level data, the author does a strong job of describing how the forms of knowledge contained in the map are bound to the way poisoning is obscured from the general public. By doing so, the author is implicitly revealing how this (state/local) failure to visualize toxicity is prolonging poisoning.

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.

I like your choice of the infographic as quintessential to experiences of lead exposure. I am interested in what is left unsaid by the infographics which start from the vantage point of wanting to distill complexities into useable vernaculars. For instance, to push against the worn-out saying, "knowledge is power", in the case of a poor family finding out that their home is draped in lead paint, "knowledge is disempowering".

This is a collage of infographics designed by various institutions to disseminate information. One way we could build larger research question on this is perhaps to examine what kind of formal conventions or focuses on content within these images.

The author does a great job of culminating their argument on the relationship between the "invisibility" of lead poisoning and the dearth of available data and information access that those communities most susceptible to poisoning risk must navigate. Theoretically, the series of images has the viewer deeply consider the relationship between information and toxic outcomes.  

These images show how industrial (chemical) pollutants are pervasive in both our occupational and everyday lives. Furthermore, a particular body, a person of color who works a low-paying or risky job, is more likely to be exposed to these toxic stresses, which in turn can aggrevate pre-existing illnesses or contribute to multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS). These images convey the inequalities associated with toxic stress and sensitivity as wealthier people can afford better healthcare, treatments, and alternative chemical or non-chemical products.

They mentioned this in their Design Statement, but these images represent the "slow violence" of environmental toxins and the canary narratives associated with who inadvertently or purposefully are made to be "warning signs" for the rest of the community.

These images definitely evoked more of an emotional response for me. The emotions on the characters and the ruination in the background in the image conveys feelings of sadness and despair.