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Saturday, April 16, 2022

Hallmark to debut romance with lead character who has Down Syndrome

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from CNN : Hallmark Movies & Mysteries is diversifying its content. The cable channel is set to feature a romance with a lead who has ...

Sunday, April 3, 2022

Disabled filmmakers demand UCLA amend Hollywood diversity report to document disabled, LGBTQIA+ representation

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From Variety : Pictured is Anna Dzieduszycka, an actor with dwarfism, who starred in the Oscar-nominated film from Poland, "The Dres...

Sunday, February 20, 2022

'I'm proving everyone wrong': Actors with Down syndrome enjoying new era of media representation

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From the CBC-Radio Canada . Pictured is Toronto performer Madison Tevlin, who will star in a new CBC series called "Who Do You Think I ...

Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Troy Kotsur makes history as the first Deaf male actor to get Oscar nomination

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From The New York Times . Pictured are Deaf actors Troy Kotsur and Marlee Matlin, who play deaf parents in “CODA.” A couple of weeks ag...

Saturday, January 15, 2022

How children’s author Cece Bell, ‘El Deafo’ give deafness a lead role in new Apple TV+ animated series

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From Steven Aquino, the diversity, equity & inclusion contributor at Forbes : Considering the world is entering into its third year ...

Friday, December 17, 2021

‘The Music Man’ once had a disabled character. Then he was erased.

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From The New York Times : Pictured: Michael Phelan as Winthrop Paroo and Rebecca Luker as Marian Paroo in a 2000 revival of “The Music Man”...

Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Please stop comparing disability mimicry to blackface by Dominick Evans

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Note: This is a reprint of Evans, D. (2017). "Please stop comparing disability mimicry to blackface," on the Dominick Evans websit...

Thursday, December 2, 2021

Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (GADIM) partners with FilmDis for TV study

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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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