Co-authored by Lucienne Dale and Kathleen Bogart, Ph.D. The media has thankfully become more diverse over time. There has been an increase in the number of stories that discuss a range of gender, race ...
Inevitable Foundation‘s latest survey has found that audiences have expressed “dissatisfaction” with disability representation in the entertainment industry. The “Audiences Are Waiting for Hollywood ...
If one were to ask the average media viewer about disability at the Academy Awards, they’d probably refer to Marlee Matlin winning the Oscar for Best Actress for the 1986 feature “Children of a Lesser ...
Headshots of Bonnielin Swenor (left) and Scott Landes (right). Next week, a virtual conference co-hosted by Syracuse University will focus on how countries, programs and researchers measure disability ...
"If you can’t self-examine, someone else is going to have to do it for you, and that’s a harder lesson." Yaeger acquits himself quite well, playing a not-too-bright cop who is caught between Reynold’s ...
The 2024 Paralympics closed in style on Sunday. The Stade de France in Paris transformed into a huge electronica dance party with the world’s elite para-athletes doing a farewell conga. It was a ...
Fans are praising "Bridgerton" for including a character who is deaf and another who uses a wheelchair. Some think that Francesca Bridgerton and her love interest, John Stirling, are "autistic-coded." ...
On August 13, the DGA Disability Committee’s online meeting featured the panel discussion, Authentic Casting and Disability Representation in Amber Sealey's Out of My Mind. Sealey's film tells the ...
[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 1 Episode 5, “A God Buys Us Cheeseburgers.”] Timothy Omundson was just as impressed by the young stars of ...
This type of representation behind the scenes falls in line with the idea of “nothing about us without us,” an important idea within disability advocacy. Another way to improve autism representation ...