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 lauredhel on 3 April, 2010
You saw last week’s Glee promotional poster, posted here by s. e. smith. In that poster, Sue the cheerleading coach sprays spray paint across the Glee club – hitting most of the singers in the chest or abdomen, but spraying Artie, who uses a wheelchair, across the eyes. Here’s the latest: Look at those singers! [...]
Posted in media and pop culture | Tagged artie, disability, disabilityfail, disabled men can't jump, fail, glee, poster, wheelchair
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 28 December, 2009
This is part four and final of a multipart post on Glee. Previous posts included the introduction to the series, “Women and Race on Glee,” and “Disability and Sexuality on Glee.” What we’re told about Glee, over and over, is that the show is critiquing these tropes by depicting them. That the show is confronting [...]
Posted in media and pop culture, television | Tagged glee, television
By s.e. smith on 24 December, 2009
This is post three of four in a multipart series on Glee. Previous posts included the introduction to the series and “Women and Race on Glee.” Before I begin, I would like to highly recommend access_fandom’s representation linkspams on Glee, which have links to numerous writings on Glee from a variety of perspectives. I wanted [...]
Posted in media and pop culture, television | Tagged glee, television
By s.e. smith on 21 December, 2009
This is post two of four in a multipart series on Glee. The previous post was the introduction. Glee‘s core message about women seems to be that they are all manipulative, evil, lying sneaks. The show includes not one but two deceptive pregnancy plots, interspersed with numerous depictions of women as nags, from Quinn pressuring [...]
Posted in media and pop culture, television | Tagged disabled women, glee, television, violence against women
By s.e. smith on 18 December, 2009
This post contains spoilers through the Glee midseason finale, “Sectionals.” It also got really long, so I am breaking it up into multiple parts so that it will not be an impenetrable Wall of Text. This is part one of four! Now that the midseason finale is officially over, we think it’s an appropriate time [...]
Posted in media and pop culture, television | Tagged glee, television
By Anna on 16 November, 2009
Basically, after a three week hiatus, the show came back last week, and wow, was there a lot of press about it. Not because of the show’s performance, or the show’s “diversity” award, but because of the controversy that has been suddenly generated by the show.
Posted in media and pop culture | Tagged ableism, actors with disabilities, advocacy, ally, ally work, artie, glee, kevin mchale, media and pop culture, responses
By Anna on 15 November, 2009
I know people are searching for our responses to the Very Special Disability Episode of Glee. I’ve got something going up Monday, but I wanted to highlight a few very good responses from other people to the episode, specifically people who are actually knowledgeable about the disabilities presented on the show. So, obviously no one actually associated with the show itself, because they seem pretty clueless.
Posted in media and pop culture, recommended reading | Tagged glee, kevin mchale, media and pop culture, television
Recommended Reading for 14 April, 2010
By s.e. smith on 14 April, 2010
Warning: Offsite links are not safe spaces. Articles and comments in the links may contain ableist, sexist, and other -ist language and ideas of varying intensity. Opinions expressed in the articles may not reflect the opinions held by the compiler of the post and links are provided as topics of interest and exploration only. I [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged awareness campaigns, disability on stage, disability on television, fighting ableism, glee, go commenters go!, ms, race, social justice, trans, work