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Friday, August 31, 2018

New A&E documentary gives viewers look into lives of Deaf people

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From Parade : Oscar-winning actress Marlee Matlin, who lost most of her hearing as a toddler, is an executive producer of the A&E...

Tuesday, August 7, 2018

Ali Stroker on "Oklahoma!" and Bringing Disability Representation to Another Iconic Musical

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From Teen Vogue : Ali Stroker is working to make the Broadway world more inclusive — one iconic musical at a time. The actor...

Monday, July 30, 2018

Comedian Hannah Gadsby says her autism diagnosis transformed her

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From Stylist in the UK: You’d be hard pressed to read a bad review of Netflix’s Nanette , and even more so to find someone who has yet...

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Aerie's latest lingerie campaign features models with disabilities, chronic illnesses

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From Teen Vogue : Lingerie brand Aerie quietly released a new images on its website this week that feature women with a range disab...

Los Angeles world premiere love story ‘Arrival & Departure’ features Deaf and hearing actors

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From People's World : LOS ANGELES—Many film enthusiasts recall the 1945 classic Brief Encounter , directed by David Lean with a sc...

Wednesday, June 6, 2018

Britain's Got Talent: Is Lost Voice Guy's win a watershed moment for disability?

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From the BBC : On June 3, Britain's Got Talent drew to a close and this year's winner was crowned. Nothing unusual there. ...

Tuesday, April 10, 2018

GADIM, Curtin University in Australia to host Disability, Media and Human Rights conference April 19-20, 2018

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For immediate release: For questions, contact: katie.ellis@curtin.edu.au April 11, 2018 The Global Alliance for Dis...

Sunday, February 25, 2018

Nyle DiMarco Opens Up About Having to Leave Black Panther Because Poor Captioning

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From Teen Vogue : In this op-ed by Nyle DiMarco, as told to Bobby Siebert, Nyle opens up about having to leave Black Panther, and th...

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BA Haller: Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.

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