Ava Rigelhaupt, an autistic person, writes her reactions to the new Netflix reality series, Love on the Spectrum. Overall, she appreciated it's nuanced portrayal of autistic people and thought the team put a lot of thought into portraying them fairly…
Charlie Swinbourne examines the access that disabled people have to the media itself. He argues that disabled people, specifically Deaf and Hard of Hearing people, are blocked from actually attending movies by the lack of captioning available for…
An interview with actor, director, producer, writer, musician, public speaker and comedian, Daryl Mitchell about how he got his disability and how it affected his work and outlook on life.
Christopher Shinn discusses how, despite a resurgence of disability themed media, actual disabled people have not had much self-representation. Disabled roles are played by abled actors, shutting out disabled actors from the chance to represent…
This piece looks at the ways the media has portrayed disability and pushes back on portrayals that present disabled people as either helpless victims or inspirational heroes on the grounds of their disability. Erik Weihenmayer views this tendency as…
Imani Barbarin addresses Lupita Nyong'o's role in You as a disabled person, taking the opportunity to point out not only the ableism and racism in Hollywood, but the ableism in the Black community and the racism in the disabled community.
Imani Barbarin looks at the way Kodi Lee, a disabled contestant on America's Got Talent, was treated to talk about the broader issues of how disabled people are treated. She makes the point that disabled people are not there to be inspiration porn…
Imani Barbarin discusses the greater trend of performative allyship that permeates the abled world. She argues that allies that are only allies when they have nothing to lose, but fail to be allies when they can gain from the oppression of disabled…
In a SPOILER heavy post, Imani Barbarin discusses the different portrayals of disability in the second season of Netflix's show Jessica Jones. On the whole, Barbarin sees lots of parallels to the lived experiences of disabled people that are very…
Imani Barbarin addresses the way that disabled people have been presented to abled society as simply being lazy and unwilling to work hard enough to achieve what they set their minds to. This is dangerous because this thinking then ignores the…