The disability community has long been excluded from Hollywood and the Academy’s president, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, reinforced that when she mentioned every marginalized community in the Academy’s diversity efforts… but the disability community.
In my youth, my world revolved around shows like Beavis and Butthead, a fact not ignored by my grandfather.
For many of us privilege and oppression are not mutually exclusive. I face multiple intersections of oppression personally. I am oppressed for being disabled both with physical and invisible disabilities….
Transgender people are expected to support films that minimally include them, often by using tactics that pretend to actually include the community, as a means of deceiving them into said support.