By Annaham on 2 November, 2010
Siddharta Mukherjee for the New York Times Magazine: The Cancer Sleeper Cell In fact, this view of cancer — as tenaciously persistent and able to regenerate after apparently disappearing — has come to occupy the very center of cancer biology. Intriguingly, for some cancers, this regenerative power appears to be driven by a specific cell [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged cancer, Deaf, depictions of disability, dissociative identity disorder, identity, media and pop culture, medical treatment, medicine, personal, schizophrenia
By s.e. smith on 25 October, 2010
Riva Lehrer is a disabled painter who produces, among many other things, depictions of disabled bodies: For Lehrer, the disabled body is intensely beautiful—memorable, unexpected, and lived in with great self-awareness. These are not bodies that are taken for granted or left unexplored. This beauty has often stayed unseen despite the constant, invasive public stare. [...]
Posted in art | Tagged depictions of disability, disabled women, painting
By s.e. smith on 22 September, 2010
Here in the United States, the 2010/2011 television schedule is kicking off, and my mind naturally turns to representation for people with disabilities. I decided to compile a list of actors with disabilities playing characters with disabilities. This list is not necessarily complete; there are probably characters and shows I am forgetting about and unaware [...]
Posted in 101, creative work, media and pop culture, television | Tagged CSI, depictions of disability, disabled actors, disabled characters, glee, Lie To Me, private practice, The Secret Life of the American Teenager
By s.e. smith on 3 July, 2010
Content warning: This post includes a discussion of an article that frames disability in extremely patronising, offensive, and infantalising objectifying (note) terms. There will be selections from said article quoted for the purpose of criticism and discussion. I’ve been noticing an uptick in really, really bad articles about disability lately. I was puzzling last night [...]
Posted in For Cereal?, media and pop culture, othering, social attitudes | Tagged bad journalism, depictions of disability, disability in the media, disability tropes
By Ouyang Dan on 2 July, 2010
We took The Kid to the base theatre on Wednesday night to see Dreamwork’s How to Train Your Dragon, which is loosely adapted from a YA Book series of the same name. [Tame OYD Review with mild SPOILERS ahead] It is a story of a teen boy, Hiccup, who lives in the Viking village of [...]
Posted in media and pop culture, movies, Uncategorized | Tagged depictions of disability, disability, Dreamworks, How to Train Your Dragon, intersectionality, media and pop culture, pop culture
By s.e. smith on 18 February, 2010
This post has been percolating for a while. A question that I (and other FWD contributors, and other social justice activists in general) get asked a lot in the context of discussions about pop culture is “why aren’t you upset about [this]?” “Why are you focusing on XYZ when someone else did ABC over here?” [...]
Posted in media and pop culture, representations | Tagged crip drag, depictions of disability, pop culture
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