Felicity Smoak…When TV Characters Uphold the Harmful Disability Narrative
The Arrow writer’s room desperately needs a wheelchair user to help them tell accurate stories about using a wheelchair…or I should say, it did need such a person. By now,…
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Actors and Actresses are Being Forced to Hide Their Disabilities
Hollywood can be cruel, especially to people who are different. We have all seen what the film portrayals and casting have done to those who are actors of color, and…
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Important Tips on How to Portray Disability Accurately in Film
While many believe that a film’s main purpose is to entertain, films do much more than that. They educate us. They empower us. They make us feel a plethora of…
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Academy President Excludes Disability From Diversity Initiatives – #OscarsDISs
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.
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Beavis, Buttface, and Memories of my Grandfather
In my youth, my world revolved around shows like Beavis and Butthead, a fact not ignored by my grandfather.
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Not Quite Good Enough…How Movies Like The Danish Girl Use The Trans Community
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.
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Star Wars, Disability, and the Realities of Lack of Access
Lack of access to essential services can affect the disability community in a plethora of ways. In some cases, that includes lack of access to go see Star Wars.
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Target Shows it is Easy to Include People with Disabilities
It’s time to go back to school, and that means retailers like Target are rolling out their back-to-school videos. I happened to catch one of their new commercials when it…
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Activists with Disabilities Say #NothingWithoutUs
Activists in the disability community are changing the dialogue from nothing about us without us to simply saying nothing without us when it comes to inclusion in the media.
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Trans People are Angry About Sophia’s Portrayal on OITNB
From portraying her as a misogynist to misgendering her consistently, there’s so many problems with the writing of Sophia in season three of OITNB.