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.
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. For instance, in my hometown, because lead exposure was so often tied to poverty, being seen at the lead clinic was stigmatized-in with going on SNAP and going to the pediatric clinic for basic care. Exposure became another way of being made legibly marginal.