By Annaham on 6 July, 2010
jadelennox (DW): How to fight ableism: some easy steps So I thought it might be valuable to gather together some ways in which able-bodied people can do something about ableism in the world. Then, next time a person is feeling frustrated about ableism, and is thinking about doing some signal boosting of, say, some crappy [...]
Posted in activism, bodies, media and pop culture, movies, race, recommended reading, representations, social attitudes, work | Tagged ability, ableism, accessibility, activism, advertising, conceptions of disability, disability, intersectionality, language, movies, personal stories, pop culture, privilege, protest, race, racism, social attitudes, social inclusion, writing
By Ouyang Dan on 20 April, 2010
Every now and then a movie comes out and I get super excited about it because it sparks something form my childhood or youth that I love. Percy Jackson and the Olympians did that. I loved Greek mythology in High School (even if I went a little cross-eyed reading The Odyssey and The Illiad). Hollywood [...]
Posted in books, media and pop culture, movies | Tagged ableism, disability, movies, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, pop culture
By Chally on 3 January, 2010
Beyond Words is an Australian short thriller directed by Armand De Saint-Salvy, one of 16 finalists for Tropfest 2009. (Tropfest is the world’s largest short film festival, involving more than 600 filmmakers each year!) The two main, unnamed characters in the film are a deaf woman1 (Charlotte Gregg) and a blind man (Gyton Grantley). The [...]
Posted in creative work, media and pop culture, representations | Tagged disabled characters, film reviews, media and pop culture, movies
By Chally on 29 November, 2009
This post contains spoilers for the book and the film. The other day I went to see the film version of my favourite book, Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife. I was expecting a more gooey version of the book, and was a little apprehensive about the treatment of disability, but I wasn’t expecting what [...]
Posted in media and pop culture, representations | Tagged books, characters with disabilities, movies, pop culture
By Ouyang Dan on 2 November, 2009
Moderatrix Note: Originally posted at random babble… on 15 September 2009. At the time the movie was just out over the previous summer. Because of the new movie that is out I am currently re-reading Jodi Piccoult’s My Sister’s Keeper. I read it about five years ago, but I read that the screenwriter for the [...]
Posted in media and pop culture | Tagged books, invisible disabilities, movies, pop culture
By s.e. smith on 24 October, 2009
Crossposted at this ain’t livin’. I would like you to imagine that you are a film producer, or perhaps a television producer. You are making something, and you have decided that since an estimated 20% of the population consists of people with disabilities, that maybe there should be some people with disabilities in your finished [...]
Posted in media and pop culture | Tagged actors with disabilities, characters with disabilities, disabled actors, disabled characters, movies, television
By Guest on 20 October, 2009
What is Max’s impairment? What is Esther’s? And why can we recognize Max’s within five seconds of meeting her, while it takes us nearly two hours to learn–pardon the phrase–what is “wrong with” Esther?
Posted in media and pop culture | Tagged disability in fiction, exclusion, family dynamics, invisible disability, media and pop culture, mislabelling, movies, myths and misconceptions, narrative, orphan
By Anna on 13 October, 2009
Recommended Reading for October 13th.
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged accessibility, ADA, ashley X, autism, breast cancer, cancer, health care, health care is an accessibility issue, intersectionality, mental health concerns, mental illness, movies, pop culture, reproductive health
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