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Saturday, July 8, 2017

Disability organization condemns 'Blind' film for casting Alec Baldwin in lead role

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From The Los Angeles Times : The Ruderman Family Foundation, a leading organization advocating on behalf of disabled people, has come...

Thursday, June 15, 2017

Gregg Mozgala, Katy Sullivan unpack the fear, anxiety, and power of disability onstage in Manhattan Theatre Club’s Cost of Living

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From Playbill : Who : Gregg Mozgala & Katy Sullivan The Theatre : New York City Center – Stage I Martyna Majok’s Cost of Livi...

Wednesday, May 10, 2017

In Australia, TV show deals directly with disability stereotypes

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From the Attitude Foundation . Image: Dr George Taleporos and Dani Di Toro from the Wheelchair Users episode of You Can’t Ask That (AB...

Monday, May 8, 2017

Experts estimate 7,000 bodies of former 'Insane Asylum" patients from late 1800s buried on University of Mississippi Medical Center campus

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From USA Today : JACKSON, Miss. — Experts estimate up to 7,000 bodies are buried on the University of Mississippi Medical Center ca...

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Australian non-profit plans new documentary TV series that will focus on people with disabilities

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From Pro Bono Australia : Frustrated by representation of disability in the media, particularly in television, the Attitude Foundatio...

Thursday, March 9, 2017

Ruderman Family Foundation challenges TV content creators to audition, cast more actors with disabilities this pilot season

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From the Ruderman Family Foundation : The Ruderman TV Challenge was designed to continue our work in Hollywood and advocate for great...

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

In honor of International Women's Day, a Helen Keller essay on women and peace

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A column from Helen Keller, called “Women and Peace” that she wrote for Home magazine in February 1930. (Read more of Keller's essays...

Saturday, February 18, 2017

Medicaid reform advocate, writer, blogger, artist, disability rights activist Nick Dupree dies

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Nick Dupree, 34, died at New York Presbyterian Hospital February 18, 2017. A true Renaissance man, Nick fought for Medicaid reform in ...

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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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