By Chally on 24 March, 2010
Cross-posted at Zero at the Bone and Feministe. Well, it’s Disability Awareness Month in Indiana, USA. Sound Bend, IN, network WSBT are raising awareness with a story about Sarah Schelstraete, who has Down Syndrome. It’s called Sarah’s Story: Hard at work despite disabilities. One thousand points if you can anticipate from the title what my [...]
Posted in media and pop culture, representations, work | Tagged employment, paid work
By s.e. smith on 22 March, 2010
The hiatus for Glee is almost over, and buzz is starting to build again. What better a way to build excitement than to release some promotional stills, right? Found via kaninchenzero’s Tumblr. ETA: Shortly after this post went live, I learned via access_fandom that Glee is being recognised with a ‘Television with a Conscience‘ award [...]
Posted in marketing, media and pop culture, representations | Tagged glee
By s.e. smith on 20 March, 2010
Spoiler Notes: This post does contain some spoilerish material about Uglies. If you haven’t read the book yet you might want to wait to read this because it mentions a big reveal which is rather central to the plot! I have isolated it in its own spoilery paragraph for the benefit of those who would [...]
Posted in media and pop culture, normality, social attitudes | Tagged books, cure evangelism, normal, reading
By Chally on 19 March, 2010
Full disclosure: I know the film’s producer, Anne Kenyon, and she lent me a copy of the DVD after we got chatting about her film work one day. The Music in Me (2007) is a documentary following a Sydney, Australia-based dance group called the Merry Makers, which is made up of about 50 intellectually and [...]
Posted in media and pop culture | Tagged film reviews
By Ouyang Dan on 7 March, 2010
Our local theater in South Korea has one of the first and only 4D Plexes in the world (and it is currently showing Avatar, so I could possibly be entertained and annoyed and over-stimulated all at once! Whee!). “The way the company finally cornered that elusive fourth dimension is by engaging all five senses: moving [...]
Posted in accessibility, media and pop culture | Tagged accessibility, barriers to access, exclusion, media and pop culture, pop culture, social inclusion
By Anna on 6 March, 2010
One of the things that drove me up the wall about a certain popular television show that I’m not going to talk about was the scene with the “Deaf Choir”. I put “Deaf Choir” in scare quotes here because, while the members of the choir showed in that show were Deaf, that didn’t look much like any of the Deaf singing that I’ve seen.
But hey – don’t take my word for it.
Posted in media and pop culture | Tagged asl, auslan, bsl, singing
By abby jean on 26 February, 2010
There’s been a couple of recent high-profile celebrity suicides. Earlier this month, celebrated fashion designed Alexander McQueen hanged himself in his London home at the age of 40. Then this week, actor Andrew Koenig was found dead from suicide in Vancouver after being missing for several days. These are just the most recent – there’s [...]
Posted in introspective, media and pop culture, mental health
By Anna on 25 February, 2010
I think I upset one of the newer employees at my favourite tea shop today. Most of the staff are used to my cynical reactions to newspaper discussions of how inspiiiiiiiiiiring people with disabilities are at this point.
But let me begin at the beginning.
Actually, no, let me begin with something important, since recent events have told me one cannot be too careful.
There is a certain way news media prefers to talk about people with disabilities. They like to tell our stories in a way that’s “inspiring”, that’s about making non-disabled people feel better about stuff. “Oh, look at how brave that person is, being all alive and stuff despite having a disability! I would rather be dead! That person/their parents/their loved ones are so brave and inspiring! I will now put issues of accessibility and disability out of my mind, because I have been inspired!”
Posted in anna rants, autonomy, bodies, media and pop culture, othering, social attitudes | Tagged ableism, disability, exclusion, family, inspiring, media and pop culture, myths and misconceptions, news media, problematic attitudes, social treatment, things people say
By Annaham on 22 February, 2010
Hello. I am Annaham (yes, I have a name). I am the person who posted a critique of Evelyn Evelyn on this website, which kicked off something of an internet controversy. For those who’ve just joined us, I made a post about Amanda Palmer and Jason Webley’s side project Evelyn Evelyn, Lauredhel made another post [...]
Posted in activism, bodies, creative work, feminism, i'm right here, identity, intersectionality, invisibility, justice, marketing, media and pop culture, meta, normality, othering, representations, social attitudes, Uncategorized | Tagged communication, evelyn evelyn, feminism, intersectionality, media and pop culture, pop culture, privilege, problematic attitudes, social inclusion, social treatment, things people say
By s.e. smith on 19 February, 2010
Note: This post contains discussion of Lost through season six, episode four, “The Substitute.” That means it is full of spoilers! You have been warned. John Locke is one of the most central and interesting characters on ABC’s Lost. He is a character with whom I personally struggle as a viewer, especially as a disabled [...]
Posted in media and pop culture, representations | Tagged John Locke, Lost, Terry O'Quinn
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