Able-Bodied Actors and Disability Drag: Why Disabled Roles are Only for Disabled Performers

Able-Bodied Actors and Disability Drag: Why Disabled Roles are Only for Disabled Performers

Scott Jordan Harris examines the fundamental reasons that disabled characters should be played by disabled actors, from the right to be properly and accurately represented, to better authenticity, to disabled actors deserving work not stolen from them by able-bodied actors. He compares able-bodied actors playing disabled characters to blackface and drag, arguing that this is an affront to equality and is done without the consent of the disabled community and is instead done to make the able-bodied people feel comfortable.

Scott Jordan Harris

Roger Ebert

2014-03-07

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https://www.rogerebert.com/features/disabled-roles-disabled-performers

Scott Jordan Harris

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