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36th Annual Superfest Disability Film Festival
Listen to this post: Celebrate! If there’s anything I regret around Superfest it’s that I don’t blog about how much I love the festival all year long. This year’s the 36th festival, and as always, it’s a great lineup of Deaf and disability films from nearly a dozen different countries representing some of the true…
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Disabled And Here: Support this Kickstarter!
There’s some good critiques of the horrible stock photography online that’s supposed to show disability or disabled people. Do you know what I’m talking about? The thin, cisgender, 20-something white person in a manual wheelchair (usually too big or looks like it’s hospital-issued) sitting atop a gorgeous mountain with their arms raised triumphantly in the…
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2nd annual Disability in Film Blogathon: 50 1st Dates
Listen to this post: I’m so happy to participate in this year’s Disability in Film Blogathon. The blogathon in a nutshell: A bunch of us who love to talk and write about disability representation in film are all posting on our blogs at the same time in honor of Disability Employment Month. I picked a…
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The Fries Test on disability representation in media
Listen to this post: Yay! A new disability representation test! I’ve done several presentations about disability representation in the media at disability studies conferences and in college classes. And I’ve expressed a lot how I’m sad that the Gold Test for disability representation in films was the only media test that I knew about. I’m…
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Disability Visibility Podcast
Listen to this post: Remember a few months ago when I did that podcast episode with Alice Wong? We were talking about a big question: Why aren’t there more disabled voices hosting radio shows and podcasts? We also talked about interrogating the word “good.” There’s no inherent goodness to one voice and badness to another.…