I was on huge dosages of tramadol for a year, which didn’t help much either, waiting for a surgery that was in the end canceled because my condition was inoperable. I thought my life had ended, kind of. The pain was so bad, I couldn’t walk or stand for more than half an hour. After I got back from the surgeon, I went…

Man, you are willing to die on this hill. That’s cool and all - just don’t encourage other actors and actresses to endure abuse because you think it’s good for their art. Maybe you feel like being a punching bag for a director makes you a better actor but other actors should know that they don’t have to put themselves…

That’s where I fall—I mean, what? ASL’s a damn language! Deaf Culture is an active, vibrant part of some communities. Would I like it if women decided that, you know, being a woman/minority/minority woman’s tough, so let’s get those pesky female organs out, construct male genitals and go for the Lil’ Kim/Michael…

Way late to the party on this one, but I used to work for a college that has a rather large Deaf Communication Studies program, and the thing was that some people wanted to let the children decide for themselves (but there’s a certain window of time in which to do this and be able to speak—that’s what they said then),…

Hopefully that won’t be the case. K’naan has been a pretty strong voice against gang violence and improving conditions both in Somalia and in Somali communities here in Canada. I’d be interested to see how his project shakes out.

It’s really exhausting to see how many comments here boil down to “as an able-bodied person, I think disabled people are just too sensitive.”

I think you hit the crux of the issue for me. I’m fully abled, but I’m pretty disappointed that the general consensus here is extremely flippant and careless.

There’s no shortage of actors in the world. They seem to find plenty of them to be stand ins and stunt doubles. Plus we have makeup and even cg. It’s not an excuse.

Thank you. I read the book but have no intention of seeing the movie, for the reasons you list and because the way the book was set up there were two possible endings, both of which I found problematic: either Will goes through with his assisted suicide and you come away with the message that his life really wasn’t wor…

Inspiration porn is it’s cousin. Those of us with disabilities ( I have MS and ankylosing spondylitis and care for my aunt who has a profound intellectual disability) are never portrayed as living for *ourselves*. We are catalysts for able-bodied people to feel good about themselves and reach *their* potential. (Or…

Man. I guess I really shouldn’t be surprised that the comments on this article are so different to the comments on last week’s Constance Wu/whitewashing article, but I am. Basically, it appears that “chill the fuck out” is the consensus here. The one movie of the year about a person with a serious disability — not…

You know what I would like to see as a movie about disability? There’s a book about the disability rights movement in the US that I call “The Rights Stuff” - I can’t remember the title but it might be The disability rights movement: from charity to confrontation. It starts with the Berkeley independent living movement…

Why does everyone involved in the film keep saying let’s keep having this conversation when none of them will actually have this conversation with the disability community?

this sounds like the bury your gays trope and if the minorities of said trope are tired of seeing themselves portrayed in the same light consistently, then i don’t care how “well written” and proud you are for making the audience “feel.” Research and write better work, we will all be the better for it